English use which I have encountered in the office which drives me up the wall.
revert - using it to mean get back to me.
May I kindly ask you to review the proposed content and revert with any final comments
Let’s see if the DSL can revert on the capacity needed and we can move on to decide if additional hardware are required.
pls revert if there are any changes to the channels and/or website mentioned below for the DR test on the 18th of Sept.
In case if you need any other details, please revert back to me.
the same - huh? do you mean this?
You must be aware that we are planning to integrate XXX on DAP. The proposed date for the same is Q4-2006.
As per the plan we have actually proposed the integration over a span of 2 weeks, and have requested support for the same by the DAP team
September 9th, 2005 at 11:50
Client has accepted solution provided by the Tim.
November 21st, 2005 at 06:09
THERE CAN BE ONLY OOONNNNNEEEEE!!!!!
BTW, I hate when people say “Going forward”…. its totally unnecessary!! “Going forward, we should do this.” or “We should do that, going forward.”
Why not just say “We should do this.” GRRRRR.
March 19th, 2006 at 23:09
I’m not sure I like the word ‘huh’ being so prevalent within your website. But I agree, poor English is bad news for our society. Just look at John Prescott - would you want your children to speak like him?
On that note, I recall the ‘Director of EMEA’ (or something) at BMC/Remedy giving a presentation, and becoming quite confused when I stopped him and asked, “Did you mean fewer or less? I think you meant fewer, but you said less”. Oddly, he didn’t take to me.
May 2nd, 2006 at 20:12
Or, when someone uses “then” when they actually mean “than” as in “less than” or “loose” when they mean “lose”