"I've reached out to them..."

GreenQueen

deannatrois wrote: »

Why do people have to use the word 'always' when they mean 'often' or 'sometimes'? No one 'always' uses the word passionate, just like they don't always 'love'.., sometimes they just 'like' or 'fancy' or 'lust after' someone.

I think people who use the word 'always' are a bit desperate to persuade and not worried about accuracy.

DEFINITION: " Hyperbole, from a Greek word meaning “excess,” is a figure of speech that uses extreme exaggeration to make a point or show emphasis. It is the opposite of understatement.":D

fozmcfc

Agree saying like reached out to, are annoying and another Americanism.

Mind you it's not just these sort of things that annoy, it's trendy sounding names, that are takes on names such as Google and Yahoo. Try and make them shorter the better.

Job titles, whats wrong with binman.

And what about all these intolerance people suddenly around nowadays. Oh it must be lactose or gluten free or does it contain wheat I can't eat that.

Back in my day, people, would just say, I don't drink milk, it makes my stomach churn up. Not attach a label to themselves, like I'm lactose or dairy free.

VfM4meplse

Greta_Sharbo wrote: »

Going forward, I'll stop reaching out.

I'll respond with an American thank-you-SO-MUCH. Because a good old fashioned "thanks" clearly sounds soooo insincere!

That's the most irritating phrase, like, EVER!

shortcrust

A company has just acknowledged my reply to their email with this:

Thanks for reaching back.

:mad:;)

marliepanda

shortcrust wrote: »

A company has just acknowledged my reply to their email with this:



:mad:;)

Reaching back for what?! :eek:

LadyDee

We "all" want to know who's won "......"; "everybody" is excited by "....", and so on and so forth (so-called news readers are the worst for this).

NO! I'm not interested, I don't want to know, I'm not excited!

reason2

i'm OK with people reaching out, as long as they aren't literally doing everything, like when they literally tried everything by sending an email, or they literally died when they found out they were over charged, or they literally don't want to talk about it, whilst typing about it on a forum.

NBLondon

marliepanda wrote: »

Reaching back for what?! :eek:

a sick bucket?

JuicyJesus

Exemplar wrote: »

Or Depeche Mode where they quoted words to live by 'reach out, touch cake'.

NOT eat it though, just touch. Saves on the calories.

It's actually "reach out and touch Faith", but only with the caveat that Faith wants to be touched because I wouldn't blame her for being a bit upset otherwise.

JuicyJesus

marliepanda wrote: »

Reaching back for what?! :eek:

Better than reaching around.