Monday, April 22, 2013

ongoingly/currently, continuously: Common Errors in English Usage Entry for Monday, April 22, 2013

ongoingly/currently, continuously
“Ongoingly” is not standard English. When something is occurring in an ongoing manner, you can speak of it as happening “currently” or “continuously.”

3 comments:

  1. This is one of those errors that has to do with natural language evolution. "Standard" is what's commonly used, not a blessed committee somewhere.

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  2. Ongoingly is certainly the correct usage of the term, when one wishes to convey a prospective continuation of a defined task - just for example...

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  3. Although I object to this term's common omission, with insistence toward its necessity, I relent that in some cases, it could be substituted by the term "thereafter", with the mere (perhaps insufficient) 'implication' that the discussed event or action would continue to occur.

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