When did "I asked them"....
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......turn into "I reached out to them"???
It seems to be the catchy phrase of choice the last year or so, though mainly on TV.. I've heard it four times just this evening!!
Last one I remember, that everybody used at every opportunity, was "take it to the next level". Or "let's move it to the next level".
It seems to be the catchy phrase of choice the last year or so, though mainly on TV.. I've heard it four times just this evening!!
Last one I remember, that everybody used at every opportunity, was "take it to the next level". Or "let's move it to the next level".
King Herald said:
......turn into "I reached out to them"???
Last one I remember, that everybody used at every opportunity, was "take it to the next level". Or "let's move it to the next level".
That's as good a way of asking the girlfriend for a bit of botty banging as I can imagineLast one I remember, that everybody used at every opportunity, was "take it to the next level". Or "let's move it to the next level".
Polite too
It drains my self respect every time I capitulate to the misuse of this phrase. I work for a large American company. No one ever knows what the hell is going on so we constantly need to ask other people for help. Here's the nub if it; telling someone else to go ask someone else for help can easily offend them. It shouldn't, but a lot of people have fragile egos and many offices revolve around front and bluff. So rather than say "go ask Fred for help" (stupidly seen as negative) we'll say "reach out to Fred" (and reaching out to people is a good thing, right?). So it's a feeble euphemism. And its misuse dilutes its existing, specific meaning, and makes our language a little less precise, a little thinner. Uggghhhhhh.
King Herald said:
......turn into "I reached out to them"???
It seems to be the catchy phrase of choice the last year or so, though mainly on TV.. I've heard it four times just this evening!!
Last one I remember, that everybody used at every opportunity, was "take it to the next level". Or "let's move it to the next level".
First heard by me from the lips of David Caruso in NYPD Blue. I laughed out loud as I did when I first saw the wide mouth frog faced Ford Scorpio. But I got used to the car and I no longer laugh at this stupid Americanism and all the others we find ourselves using. "Have you got a car?" "I do". It should be "I have"... etc.It seems to be the catchy phrase of choice the last year or so, though mainly on TV.. I've heard it four times just this evening!!
Last one I remember, that everybody used at every opportunity, was "take it to the next level". Or "let's move it to the next level".
ATG said:
It drains my self respect every time I capitulate to the misuse of this phrase. I work for a large American company. No one ever knows what the hell is going on so we constantly need to ask other people for help. Here's the nub if it; telling someone else to go ask someone else for help can easily offend them. It shouldn't, but a lot of people have fragile egos and many offices revolve around front and bluff. So rather than say "go ask Fred for help" (stupidly seen as negative) we'll say "reach out to Fred" (and reaching out to people is a good thing, right?). So it's a feeble euphemism. And its misuse dilutes its existing, specific meaning, and makes our language a little less precise, a little thinner. Uggghhhhhh.
I worked in the US oil patch for a decade or so, with more than enough yanks, and 'I hear what you're saying'* about their fragile egos and paranoid victim mentality. - And I hate that phrase too.... but started to use it due to saturation in their 'culture'.
ATG said:
It drains my self respect every time I capitulate to the misuse of this phrase. I work for a large American company. No one ever knows what the hell is going on so we constantly need to ask other people for help. Here's the nub if it; telling someone else to go ask someone else for help can easily offend them. It shouldn't, but a lot of people have fragile egos and many offices revolve around front and bluff. So rather than say "go ask Fred for help" (stupidly seen as negative) we'll say "reach out to Fred" (and reaching out to people is a good thing, right?). So it's a feeble euphemism. And its misuse dilutes its existing, specific meaning, and makes our language a little less precise, a little thinner. Uggghhhhhh.
"Go and have a quiet word with old Fred - he might have a few tips that could help."motco said:
ATG said:
It drains my self respect every time I capitulate to the misuse of this phrase. I work for a large American company. No one ever knows what the hell is going on so we constantly need to ask other people for help. Here's the nub if it; telling someone else to go ask someone else for help can easily offend them. It shouldn't, but a lot of people have fragile egos and many offices revolve around front and bluff. So rather than say "go ask Fred for help" (stupidly seen as negative) we'll say "reach out to Fred" (and reaching out to people is a good thing, right?). So it's a feeble euphemism. And its misuse dilutes its existing, specific meaning, and makes our language a little less precise, a little thinner. Uggghhhhhh.
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