Timeline for "Short delivery time" vs "fast delivery time"
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| Jul 7, 2017 at 19:25 | history | migrated | from english.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Jul 5, 2017 at 8:15 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Jul 4, 2017 at 6:27 | comment | added | English Student | Although 'time' is typically supposed to be long or short, terms like 'fast time' are idiomatically used in aquatics, motor sports and athletics, as in Bolt ran a real fast time this year at Prague. Moreover 'fast delivery time' is much clearer for customers of any delivery service, and the proprietor of that pizza parlor is probably not a member (yet) at EL and U! | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 12:08 | answer | added | Friend | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 9:03 | comment | added | satnam | In my reckoning, the correct usage should be "fast/faster delivery" and "short/shorter delivery time". But of course, common usage (in e-commerce) gets it muddled up. | |
| Jul 3, 2017 at 8:54 | history | asked | Ravi Lautan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |