Please revert

[Mich the Tester]

The only one of those that irritates me is revert. All the others I find either amusing or charming.

The trick is not to assume the person with the bad grammar is charming. Or think "awww bless" and patronise them in the way you reply.

What a lot of people forget is that these are pretty shrewd individuals that have learned our language, which is from a completely different part of the world with a completely different alphabet, and then travelled here to be away from their families for extended periods.

Give em a break I say.

<Suity in I was an immigrant in a neighbouring country and that was enough of an eye opener mode />

WHS

[Alias]

Reading this today I thought, why not reply with "Sure, I’ll set my biological clock to regress evolutionarily to my original primitive hydrocarbon state at 1 p.m. today."

The two Bobisms that get me to everytime I hear them around ClientCo are:

"I'll just be back" - to mean "I'll be right back"
"Just wait and watch" - to mean "Just wait and see"

*Sigh*

[suityou01]

One fella I worked with (absolute B.O.D.S. genius) used to say "Why because" when explaining things.

"We should stage the data, why because it gives us many benefits" ....

Again, charming.

[mudskipper]

Indeed.



Assuming that all of the above was intentional.

My money's on at least one non intentional error.

[CheeseSlice]

The two Bobisms that get me to everytime I hear them around ClientCo are:

"I'll just be back" - to mean "I'll be right back"
"Just wait and watch" - to mean "Just wait and see"

*Sigh*

I once heard "when can I start the upgradation?"

[cailin maith]

I don't think it is just a "Bob-ism" - I see it a lot on correspondance from Solicitors and Accountants. And have done for many years.

eg - I will revert back to you in due course.

[suityou01]

I don't think it is just a "Bob-ism" - I see it a lot on correspondance from Solicitors and Accountants. And have done for many years.

eg - I will revert back to you in due course.

They outsourced document production.

HTH

[Cenobite]

There are two languages things that really kill me at the moment.

Firstly, "I am liking this" instead of "I like this".

Second, people going on about "banter".

[suityou01]

There are two languages things that really kill me at the moment.

Firstly, "I am liking this" instead of "I like this".

Second, people going on about "banter".

I'm loving that.

[suityou01]

I'm doing the needful doings.

Ease and squeeze.