Timeline for Alternative to "is going to be"
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| Feb 14, 2012 at 23:24 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Just thinking about your answer, and OP's wish to avoid directly referencing "the future", it occurs to me one could reasonably say "X becomes outdated once Y joins" - except that I cannot for the life of me imagine any real-world values of X and Y where any of these different permutations make much sense. | |
| Feb 14, 2012 at 21:35 | comment | added | drakorg | I'm sure it will, but it just shouldn't have been there in the first place. Regarding the congrats, thanks ! I can now die in peace :) | |
| Feb 14, 2012 at 21:18 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I'm no expert on these things, but I rather suspect I've made a few 1-char edits. Maybe that limit disappears when you get more rep (congrats on reaching 1K btw :) | |
| Feb 14, 2012 at 21:07 | comment | added | drakorg | @FumbleFingers I agree with the general consensus of not including things like Thanks. However, I can't agree on the limitation of not being able to do edits with less than 6 chars. I'd rather have my thanks removed from the edit than forcefully having to find errors or improvements that may or may not be there. And if they are not there, I wonder what the suggested course of action would be. No one can be so pedantic as to assure that every single post can be enhanced. I know this issue has been discussed on meta but it wasn't me who brought it up, at least here. | |
| Feb 14, 2012 at 19:26 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Re your recent edit to the question - it might seem rude to you, but the general consensus here on ELU is that question text should not include things like "Thanks!". | |
| Feb 14, 2012 at 16:11 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | I agree that simply using the normal English future te㎋u is the most natural way to express this. | |
| Feb 14, 2012 at 15:29 | history | answered | drakorg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |