Timeline for soon need, or need soon?
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| May 30, 2023 at 11:27 | vote | accept | CGCampbell | ||
| Apr 28, 2023 at 1:00 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @PaulTanenbaum We will need something soon. We will soon need something. Soon we will need something. When you pull out the something for the nothing like version, it leaves behind a version that at surface value may look like "a thing" that it really is not. That's what John was saying. | |
| Apr 27, 2023 at 22:46 | comment | added | PaulTanenbaum | I don’t read the “need soon” version as you do. For me the OP’s examples are essentially interchangeable. If I understand your interpretation, it’d be conveyed something like, “It was nothing we would need anytime soon.” | |
| Apr 27, 2023 at 19:54 | history | answered | Weather Vane | CC BY-SA 4.0 |