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Originally posted by aardvark View PostDo you get a lot of correspondence from solicitors?
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Originally posted by cailin maith View PostI 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.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/ma...ge-t.html?_r=0
Sticklers who are not already up in arms about this change in meaning will surely bristle at the redundancy of the second sentence: why revert back when you can simply revert?
As Alison Waters, a lexicographer at Oxford University Press, told The Indian Express, revert in the sense of "reply" is one of eight contributions from Indian English included in the latest batch of OALD additions.
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Originally posted by cailin maith View PostI 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.
Interesting - I thought it was a bobism that had wriggled its way into common parlance, but maybe revert can mean reply/respond. Revert back has got to be wrong though, shirley?
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It's getting worse.
In a meeting this week, the PM not only used the term no fewer than three times, but added a 'back' to it. :tautology
"Waiting for x to revert back".
I bit my tongue.
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Originally posted by zeitghostI'm doing the needful doings.
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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".
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Originally posted by cailin maith View PostI 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.
HTH
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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.
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Originally posted by Alias View PostThe 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*
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Originally posted by zeitghostIndeed.
Assuming that all of the above was intentional.
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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.
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"I'll just be back" - to mean "I'll be right back"
"Just wait and watch" - to mean "Just wait and see"
*Sigh*
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