Timeline for As soon as possible vs. Right after
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| Aug 2, 2020 at 22:51 | answer | added | Glenn Willen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 22:45 | comment | added | alephzero | I used to work in a team where we had a standard response for any request to do something "as soon as possible". We scheduled it to be done in 12 months' time. People soon learned to think about when they really needed us to do some work for them! | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 22:41 | comment | added | alephzero | In the Grammarly blog, they are complaining about using "As soon as possible" to mean "stop anything else you are doing and obey my order immediately." That is not what your sentence "If you really need to do so, change it back as soon as possible" means. | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 22:38 | comment | added | alephzero | You are right. "Change it back right after" is not an English sentence, and "... right after you have finished your tasks" is unnecessarily verbose. | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 19:51 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Aug 2, 2020 at 12:31 | comment | added | john c. j. | @TypeIA It has quite harsh meaning in my native language. :) I was also "scared" by the following article on Grammarly: grammarly.com/blog/as-soon-as-possible | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 12:29 | vote | accept | john c. j. | ||
| Aug 2, 2020 at 12:23 | answer | added | mdewey | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 12:19 | comment | added | TypeIA | "As soon as possible" sounds perfect to me - not too harsh at all. | |
| Aug 2, 2020 at 11:55 | history | edited | john c. j. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 2, 2020 at 11:47 | history | asked | john c. j. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |