C'mon, SMS, things change in several hundreds of years...sundaymorningstaple wrote:I've heard it when I was young, but again, I haven't heard it used in eons now.
I assume it is a similar grammatical construction to "Updation", which I often see in emails from colleagues in different time-zones. Example of common usage:beppi wrote:"Botheration" - I just love this word, it should have been invented earlier (and not necessarily by such a brute).
Like "prepone."zzm9980 wrote:I assume it is a similar grammatical construction to "Updation", which I often see in emails from colleagues in different time-zones. Example of common usage:beppi wrote:"Botheration" - I just love this word, it should have been invented earlier (and not necessarily by such a brute).
"Kindly do the needful and revert back with status updation"
And what is with the use of 'revert', as in the sentence above. Completely incorrect usage. Don't know if folks think this is some kind of 'classical English'... in reality it is hooey! The correct word is 'respond'.zzm9980 wrote:"Kindly do the needful and revert back with status updation"
Each time I see an e-mail requesting me to REVERT, I will be so tempted to send back the same e-mail the sender sent me in original form and reply 'REVERTED'Strong Eagle wrote:And what is with the use of 'revert', as in the sentence above. Completely incorrect usage. Don't know if folks think this is some kind of 'classical English'... in reality it is hooey! The correct word is 'respond'.zzm9980 wrote:"Kindly do the needful and revert back with status updation"
re·vert [ri-vurt]
verb (used without object)
1. to return to a former habit, practice, belief, condition, etc.: They reverted to the ways of their forefathers.
2. Law . to go back to or return to the former owner or to his or her heirs.
3. Biology . to return to an earlier or primitive type.
4. to go back in thought or discussion: He constantly reverted to his childhood.
Well, his little tirade did stir up a botheration; reverting to the regulars about PR abusers...sweetgazebo wrote:Poor chap! He'd originally requested for information on applying for Singapore PR. He's only got his English, and from his kind, scrutinised, analysed and microscopically dissected!
Cos, probably the OP is mad that he didn't get the service that he demanded and .. the residents here decided to make use of the thread anyway ...sweetgazebo wrote:Poor chap! He'd originally requested for information on applying for Singapore PR. He's only got his English, and from his kind, scrutinised, analysed and microscopically dissected!
Aww come on, you said earlier in this thread that we can have fun here, right?nakatago wrote:Well, his little tirade did stir up a botheration; reverting to the regulars about PR abusers...sweetgazebo wrote:Poor chap! He'd originally requested for information on applying for Singapore PR. He's only got his English, and from his kind, scrutinised, analysed and microscopically dissected!
Indian English my friend! It is just as legitimate, or even more so, than SinglishStrong Eagle wrote:And what is with the use of 'revert', as in the sentence above. Completely incorrect usage. Don't know if folks think this is some kind of 'classical English'... in reality it is hooey! The correct word is 'respond'.zzm9980 wrote:"Kindly do the needful and revert back with status updation"
re·vert [ri-vurt]
verb (used without object)
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