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No, you didn’t “reach out”, you CONTACTED them

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jmh:
'reaching out' was one, albeit very minor reason that I retired earlier than I had intended a few years ago. That, and other phrases came across as poison from marketing and dragged IT in. Well, that and enforced ITILisation, along with all those ITIL words and phrases and ways to abuse perfectly functioning processes. In the end we techies were told that we were not to talk to our users, sorry, customers, contact being via the helpdesk where all staff were presumably well versed in the art of reaching out.

One other rather daft phrase I keep hearing is someone explaining a situation by saying they are 'not lying when they say ...' - what, they usually do lie?

Cerebus:

--- Quote from: jmh on September 25, 2021, 04:28:44 pm ---One other rather daft phrase I keep hearing is someone explaining a situation by saying they are 'not lying when they say ...' - what, they usually do lie?

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You're on a hiding to nothing there. That construction is known as iitotes and has probably been around as long as there has been language. The Illiad has litotes in it.

themadhippy:

--- Quote ---And “septics”? ”Septic” has to do with infection.
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Nope.its an ancient form of old english that means american as in septic tank-yank

TimFox:
That was English before the invention of punctuation?

Cerebus:

--- Quote from: themadhippy on September 25, 2021, 05:35:56 pm ---
--- Quote ---And “septics”? ”Septic” has to do with infection.
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Nope.its an ancient form of old english that means american as in septic tank-yank

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Oi! Less of the "Old English" thank you. That's proper pukka modern English, as what's spoke on my manor. In the words of one of the pair of modern poets of East London, Charles Hodges and David Peacock: "Gertcha, cowson".

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