I heard this sentence in a movie, and I wanted to know the polite way to express this:
They've f***ed up my reservation.
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Jerry Seinfeld has some thoughts on Reservations: youtube.com/watch?v=A7uvttu8ct0– EngineerSep 10, 2015 at 0:01
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Alternatively one says "They have ruined my reservation" or "They have messed up my reservation". Hope these will help.
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3I would agree that messed up can be used in place of the words the O.P. is asking about. One could also say screwed up, which is a bit more vulgar than messed up but nowhere near as vulgar as f***ed up. I'm not in complete agreement with "ruined," though. It might work as a substitute in some contexts, but not in others. For example, if I say, "The mechanic has messed up my car," that means he has some more work to do; however, if I say, "The mechanic has ruined my car," that implies something more severe and perhaps less likely to be repairable.– J.R. ♦Jul 18, 2014 at 17:20
They've bungled my reservation.
They've mishandled my reservation.
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If you want to be really polite, you'd remove any emotional reference to their mistake and its impact on you. So something more like this:
They made an error with my reservation
or even this to remove blame:
There was a mistake made with my reservation
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To remove all implications of fault entirely you could say "There was an issue with my reservation." It loses all information about the nature of the problem, though.– Jason CJul 18, 2014 at 22:51
They've messed up my reservation.
Means exactly the same thing, but isn't rude in the slightest.
