I just used "nearly always" in a post and remembered a grade school teacher saying you shouldn't do that.
If this is true, why not?
In 2 simple words, it seems crystal clear what is meant by it.
Can anyone think of a clearer and briefer way of saying "the vast majority of the time" ? Even "usually", does not imply the "vast majority" meaning that "nearly always" conveys. "most of the time" comes close, but is not briefer.
Just curious, mind you, certainly not pedantic as anyone can tell by the way I Nearly Always type.
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"Nearly always" sounds alright to me...but then again, what do I know?
I'm nearly always wrong about these things...
I typically use "almost always," but just out of habit/preference.
I just woke up, so don't quote me on this, but:
Possibly, the words are in the wrong order implying that you do the nearly part all of the time instead of the always part nearly all of the time, does that make sense?
I will say, however, that you shouldn't worry about it. I would guess that nearly all of us will always understand what you mean.
In other words, if it is a grammatical error, and I'm not completely certain that it is, it's such a minor one that I doubt anyone will ever say anything unless they are an English teacher, and even then it's doubtful.
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"nearly always" is logical and concise ; )
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"nearly always".. is okay but "almost always" or often is better isn't it?
In layman's terms though it is important to remember that people in the real world do not always speak grammatically correct. If they did it would probably be a boring world, and in writing if every character spoke or thought in the exact same way and they did it by the laws of grammar for their particular language it's mega boring. In fact in some languages, such as Japanese, nearly always would be perfectly acceptable under any circumstances due to the fact that the language does not have a fixed word order.
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