"Reach out" always has a tone of desperation to it. "I'm reaching out, hoping someone will save me! Please, take my hand!"
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Jan 12, 2015 11:42:12 am PST #14330 of 30000
brillig
Steph L. - Jan 12, 2015 11:42:57 am PST #14331 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
See, that use, too, implies emotion/intimacy. I just don't think that's the correct connotation when the PR department of Widgets Inc. talks about trying to get ahold of someone on the phone.
That distinction works for me. But it makes me think your friend thanking you for reaching out to her would be using it correctly.
Probably so, but to me I just hear "insincere business jargon of the moment!" rather than "I'm so glad you emailed me!"
Again, and I cannot emphasize this enough, I AM CRAXY.
Me too! "woah" is what Keanu says.
I have heard people say that before and I don't get it. Keanu says "whoa" just like I do.
Right there with you. I don't understand a difference between "whoa" and "woah", other than a misspelling.
Fred Pete - Jan 12, 2015 11:53:49 am PST #14332 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
I think of "whoa" as a synonym for "stop," or at least, "not so fast." "Woah" is more "system overloaded; does not compute" -- as others have pointed out, what Keanu says.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 12, 2015 11:54:38 am PST #14333 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
This is going to sound crazy, but to me the oa in the middle of the Keanu one do what his face does, a sort of dropped jaw, open mouth thing. Where whoa! is more abrupt and stopped.
beekaytee - Jan 12, 2015 11:56:40 am PST #14334 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
After this hellish work deadline is done (supposed to be today, has been pushed to Thursday), I'm instituting a buzzword swear jar policy for the next release. Any time a PM sends me documentation info that contains marketing buzzwords OR "leverages", they owe me a dollar.
I like it!
Dana - Jan 12, 2015 11:59:46 am PST #14335 of 30000
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Nero Wolfe despises the use of "contact" as a verb.
Jesse - Jan 12, 2015 12:08:25 pm PST #14336 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't understand the use of "call" for telephoning -- in my day, when you called on someone, you showed up at their door!
I think of "whoa" as a synonym for "stop," or at least, "not so fast." "Woah" is more "system overloaded; does not compute" -- as others have pointed out, what Keanu says.
That's just what I was going to say.
flea - Jan 12, 2015 12:21:07 pm PST #14337 of 30000
information libertarian
My grandmother (born 1913) used to say, "I'm going to look at television."
Connie Neil - Jan 12, 2015 12:26:00 pm PST #14338 of 30000
brillig
It's always fun to figure out the age of the author by the verbs they choose.
-t - Jan 12, 2015 12:36:19 pm PST #14339 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think of "whoa" as a synonym for "stop," or at least, "not so fast." "Woah" is more "system overloaded; does not compute" -- as others have pointed out, what Keanu says.
Not seeing why "whoa" can't mean both. It always has to me. It was used an expression of amazement before Bill & Ted, y'all.