Comments | jemauvais: The J-thing's Observation of the Day

jemauvais

The J-thing's Observation of the Day

Oct 04, 2005 01:36

Meant to write this a while ago but have been so busy busy busy ( Read more... )

observations, good english

Comments 9

reisende October 4 2005, 01:43:37 UTC

? I've never come across an email with that misue of the word before... perhaps it is a SAF thing? ha-ha!

ice_melody October 5 2005, 01:16:09 UTC

you'll see it tons, if u get to a 9-5 job. "Pls revert by EOD ASAP.." It's almost as if acronyms are equally misused as with the word 'revert'.

jemauvais October 5 2005, 01:32:52 UTC

Heh, I first saw it in the SAF, and I first thought it was legitimate, but something looked wrong, so I went to check the dictionary.

I see it very often also in customer service ("please revert if this is acceptable to you") and so I'm certain it's not an SAF or civil service thing. It's pandemic!

cannotmakeit October 4 2005, 03:56:55 UTC

Naaah it's a CIVIL SERVICE thing!!! Haha.... been seeing this for the longest time and my friends at work and I positively hate it!!!

jemauvais October 5 2005, 01:33:50 UTC

Hahahaha... doesn't it just grate your nerves? And you have this mental picture of some blur-faced moron typing out words without knowing what they mean.

kodomo October 4 2005, 12:56:39 UTC

Ha! I've ranted about this more than once. I see this every freakin' day.

jemauvais October 5 2005, 01:34:03 UTC

Heh, another fellow sufferer!

scherazade October 5 2005, 07:18:04 UTC

Actually, I don't care as long as they understand they have to get back to me.

anonymous November 10 2006, 14:32:15 UTC

Revert is quite commonly used in my company, my PR agency, my customers, EVERYONE !!!