vision creation - next step - first draft

Valorie Zimmerman valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com
Thu Mar 24 09:39:33 CET 2011


On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 20:42, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
>> Looks good to me.
>>
>> One thing that I noticed while reading: It should be either "at any
>> time", or "anytime". While "any time" is grammatically correct too, my
>> impression is that this form isn't used much any more in contemporary
>> English.
>>
>> Reference:
>> "anytime, adv., = at any time; whenever. Some writers consider this
>> term a CASUALISM, but it is highly convenient and has -- for whatever
>> reason -- gained more widespread acceptance than anymore (in positive
>> contexts) and anyplace. Garner's Modern American Usage"
>
> Good catch. What do the native speakers say about this?
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia

'Anytime, anywhere' is nice, if not precisely correct. "Always,
everywhere" would be correct, but doesn't have quite the nice rhythm
of anytime, anywere.

Valorie
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