>What alternatives would you suggest?... How's about the ones we've used for centuries already; "contacted" or "got in touch with". >"Reached out" at least

>What alternatives would you suggest?... How's about the ones we've used for centuries already; "contacted" or "got in touch with". >"Reached out" at least has a warm diplomatic connotation... This is exactly the reason I abhor it so much. It's so blatantly trying to be touchy-feely it makes me want to puke! It's like some committee somewhere sat down one day and decided that terms like "contact" or "get in touch with" just weren't putting across how caring their faceless corporation was. So from now on it was going to be "reaching out" all the way. What I also loathe about it is that, having thus been foisted upon us from nowhere [5 years ago I'd only ever seen the phrase in the Four Tops song], all of a sudden, all over the globe, people who have been quite happily "getting in touch with" others or "contacting" them are suddenly "reaching out" instead. And, while you're all downvoting away. Just be aware that, in addition to the "reaching out" crime, my benevolent dictatorship is going to take a similarly flagellatory view of: * Beginning the reply to a question with "So..." * Using the word "super" instead of "very" * Describing anything as "awesome" which does not meet an officially defined standard of awe-inducement * Having entire conversations on social media, which consist entirely of fucking emojis. * Using the phrase "I could care less about..." when you mean precisely the opposite. [Phew! --that'll do for now. I think I need to lie down til that vein in my temple stops throbbing]