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   Hi, Ardith Hinton!   
   I read your message from 19.03.2020 20:26   
      
     AK>> -- Anton, will you go to lunch with us?   
     AK>> -- Yeah, directly, -- answer I,   
      
     AK>> Directly???   
      
     AH> I don't know many people who would say that, but according to both   
     AH> of my Canadian dictionaries the word is used to mean "soon"   
     AH> or "immediately". :-)   
      
   IMHO, the answer on that question should contain not a time adverb    
   (soon/immediately) but the sign of consent or refusal ("yeah I will" and    
   such).   
      
     AK>> Taking aside "directly" I think that the question "will   
     Ak>> you" demands the answer like "Yeah, I will".   
      
     AH> I don't know many people nowadays who would say "anon", as Juliet   
     AH> did more than four centuries ago. Either way I understand the   
     AH> intent. But since I have no idea who Anton's colleagues are I'd   
     AH> hesitate to suggest he use the word "yeah" or add "hang on a sec",   
     AH> as I might do with family & friends.   
      
   Well, if you have good relations with your office colleges -- why not?    
   The only thing, I think, you should not confuse them with very clever or    
   tricky words. I believe the trauma the Anton's college had got was    
   connected exactly with such a confusion. He thought so hard on the word    
   "directly" that he struck the door jamb with his forehead. ;-)   
      
     AH> I wouldn't want him to miss an opportunity to become a tenured   
     AH> professor of linguistics if other such people disapprove of my free   
     AH> & easy North American ways. One of the important lessons I learned   
     AH> in my youth was that, although Miss Stickler turned a deaf ear when   
     AH> I didn't speak formal English, many of the people I worked with in   
     AH> the restaurant business seemed genuinely baffled when I did... [wry   
     AH> grin].   
      
   Again it depends on the collective you work in. Once I lived in some    
   hotel in Grenoble, France -- all the personal was always gloomy and they    
   never smiled. And they didn't speak English. ;-)   
      
   Bye, Ardith!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
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