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"as of" in Asperger's syndrome
Hi Kranix,
You reverted my past tense to the present in the the phrase "..Asperger's is estimated to affect 31 million people as of 2013."
I disagree. Where do you find evidence that this phrase should use the present tense?
In my opinion "..as of 2013.." should be typically used for, say, something that is valid forever afterwards and the verb should be in the past tense.
I think it unlikely that the figure of 31 million people affected by Asperger syndrome will stay the same forever.
So, in my opinion, the phrase should be "....in 2013, 31 million people were affected by Aspeger's."
I used https://painintheenglish.com/case/4162/ and http://blog.harwardcommunications.com/2012/04/02/as-of/ as sources.
Do you agree? SylviaStanley (talk) 11:27, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
- Sorry for the very late answer, I've been quite busy and then forgot to answer this.
- All the examples of correct use on the second linked site use the present and not the perfect tense. I think the sentence we have here is comparable to the contract termination example, which the author of the post sees as incorrect; the act of estimating the amount of people with Asperger's cannot occur "on or after" 2013. I think we agree, however, that the least confusing way to write it is in fact this:
- "...in 2013, 31 million people were estimated to be affected by Asperger's."
- I will edit the sentence to this. I'm still a bit confused about this matter, though, so if you still disagree, please do tell.
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Uneuphemization
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