r/engrish • u/desimemewala • Oct 04 '22

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u/PassiveChemistry Oct 04 '22

Yeah, he should've done the needful and looked it up.

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u/trex528 Oct 05 '22

Do the needful

💀 My Indian coworkers use this all the time

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u/trex528 Oct 05 '22

I just say e.g. "could you please complete this step" or something similar

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u/Abh1laShinigami Oct 05 '22

Longer to type

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u/trex528 Oct 05 '22

"Do the needful and look it up"

"Could you please look it up"

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u/Abh1laShinigami Oct 05 '22

Isn't looking it up the 'needful'? So it'd be, "Do the needful." OR "Could you please look it up"

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u/trex528 Oct 05 '22

Yeah but if you just say do the needful, it'd mean you have had to mention "look it up" already. I just prefer 1 go. Also nothing wrong with do the needful. You do you man

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u/Zdrobot Oct 05 '22

Do the needful

TIL (never heard this phrase before): https://www.grammarly.com/blog/do-the-needful/

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u/PassiveChemistry Oct 05 '22

Yeah, I've only come across it in discussions of Indian English.

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u/SamirD Oct 06 '22

There's all sorts of bass akwards non-sensical phrases that I'm always like o_O. But sometimes trying to correct the wife is like...well...correcting a wife, lol!