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Something me
: Cameron Marlow finds a zeitgeist moment:
While walking home from work the other day I passed a group of guys emerging from a pizza joint. After a few handshakes and goodbyes they parted ways and made arrangements for their next meeting. And then one of them yelled across the street, “something me on Thursday.” His friend looked a little confused, but I knew exactly what he was talking about. He added, “IM, call, email… I don’t care.”
In my work world of technology, we say “ping me later,” which means contact me via either: phone, IM, email or interactive pager. I think I like “something me later” more.
“Ping me” is the geek-approved version, meaning, “get back to me however you choose.”
But would it be annoying if investment bankers started saying it?
I believe the word he was looking for is “contact”. Man, vocabulary teaching has hit rock-bottom in this country.