Timeline for Substituting for
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
6 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2017 at 17:33 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @Alexander: I suspect most people would expect X is substituting for Y in contexts like this - just because your specific rephrasing happens to include for many tasks doesn't mean you don't "need" the first one. Consider the syntactically similar context Although Tom didn't play in the first half, he substituted Dick in the second half. That comes across as "muddled" to me - I'd expect something like the captain substituted Dick or he [i.e. Tom] substituted for Dick. But I'd say the captain substituted X is ambiguous as to whether X came on or left the field. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 15:52 | comment | added | Jeff Zeitlin | @Alexander - Different meaning. The original sentence (as corrected in the question) says that laptops are being replaced by tablets and phones; your correction says that laptops are being used in place of something unspecified, and it is the tablets and phones that are causing the laptops to be used instead of the something unspecified. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 15:20 | history | edited | Catija | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 2 characters in body
|
| Jul 20, 2017 at 15:12 | answer | added | JBH | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 15:12 | comment | added | Alexander | You're right, that correction sounds odd. I'd personally change it by replacing "in" with "for" like so: Tablets and phones are substituting laptops for many tasks. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 14:44 | history | asked | Nrc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |