Timeline for Once we're situated, we'll
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| Jul 1, 2022 at 8:37 | answer | added | Steve Bennett | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 1, 2022 at 6:17 | history | edited | WS2 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 30, 2022 at 21:52 | comment | added | Lambie | Yes, of course, one can be situated and not settled in. I agree. But here, for me, settled in after setting up the base camp is what works for me. | |
| Jun 30, 2022 at 21:04 | comment | added | WS2 | @Lambie Is the intransitive use the thing that's troubling you? The OED entry on the verb admittedly only has one intransitive sense, with no example more recent than the 17th C. But the way it is used here, is sufficiently close to the transitive senses that I for one would not hesitate to use it like that - should the spirit so dictate. And "settled-in" doesn't actually mean the same thing as "situated" to my mind. One could be situated without having settled in. | |
| Jun 30, 2022 at 18:24 | comment | added | stangdon | I think it's a slightly unusual, possibly slangy use of the word, but it reads OK to me. It just means "once we're in place", after all. | |
| Jun 30, 2022 at 18:11 | vote | accept | preachers | ||
| Jun 30, 2022 at 17:56 | comment | added | Lambie | @WS2 I think it is incorrectly used, so I say it, as a long time editor working in the English language. Maybe I'm being picayune but that is my opinion. You settle into a place when you arrive at it. You don't situate at that place. However, if you are lost: "We'll call you once we're situated". [Once we can tell you where we are]. It's easy to say there are different ways to say the same thing. Conversely, there are also things that cannot be said a particular way... | |
| Jun 30, 2022 at 17:51 | comment | added | WS2 | @Lambie Who says it "should be"? There are plenty of different ways of saying the same thing - as Shakespeare and thousands of others have thankfully made clear. This is the beauty of English over some other languages. "Situated" is perhaps not the word I'd have chosen, but I see little wrong with it. The speaker perhaps, for some nuanced purpose believes it captures his meaning more accurately. | |
| Jun 30, 2022 at 17:28 | comment | added | Lambie | Yes, it should be: once we've settled in. | |
| Jun 30, 2022 at 17:21 | answer | added | James K | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 30, 2022 at 17:03 | history | asked | preachers | CC BY-SA 4.0 |