But why do people revert back use it at all, when they can use reply or respond or get back? I think it’s simply because they think it sounds good. Putting back after it just feels natural. Revert on its own sounds too short and direct. We wouldn’t say reply back to me or return back to me, would we?īut again, I understand why people write revert back. Revert already contains the concept of returning within it. And when you think about it, that back is redundant. Probably the most annoying thing about revert is that people never really use just revert.
Those words are similar enough to return that it’s understandable enough to use revert in their place. Well, I never actually was you in the first place, so that’d be pretty hard!Įven so, it pains me to say it that using revert in an email to mean reply or get back, isn’t completely wrong. So what someone’s saying when they use revert back to me is transform back into me. It’s basically similar to return, but is more specifically similar to transform back. A werewolf, with the passing of the full moon, might revert to its human state. So for example, someone might revert to a childlike state after a traumatic incident. Revert means to change to a previous state or action.
The main reason for that is because the word is basically being used incorrectly. And while a lot of these short-lived buzzwords can be annoying, revert back to me tends to be the focus of particular anger. It’s part of the strange new world of business jargon: blue-sky thinking, move the needle etc. Revert back to me when you’ve finished the report.įind out what time they want to have the meeting, then revert back to me when it’s been organised. Basically, it just means get back to me or reply to me. This phrase is one that’s become increasingly common in business emails in the last couple of years.
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