Timeline for Are "right now" and "currently" exchangeably here?
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| Sep 16, 2019 at 14:03 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | It really depends on the context - if you'd been talking about the various jobs you've had over decades of past employment, Right now I'm delivering potatoes could reasonably be used / interpreted as meaning I've [only] been delivering potatoes for the past few hours / days / weeks / months (probably not years, but that couldn't always be ruled out). In other contexts it could mean you've only been doing those deliveries (and/or will continue doing so) for a matter of minutes / seconds. As ever, context is everything. | |
| Sep 16, 2019 at 12:43 | history | answered | Peter Jennings | CC BY-SA 4.0 |