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Andrew Ferguson has issues.
It’s starting to dawn on me that my personal campaign to eliminate the use of the word issue to mean difficulty, misapprehension, disturbance, irritation, objection, and a dozen unrelated words is doomed. My parallel campaign against reaching out is probably in trouble too. Reach out is a cant phrase borrowed from the weenie world of personal-growth therapy and is now used as a verb meaning talk to and correspond with and solicit and comfort and invite and damn near everything in between. If you say you’re reaching out to me instead of calling me on the phone, you’ve managed to make a routine conversation seem like a sticky session with your encounter group. Why would you want to do that?
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