Well, I can ring. ...later if it's convenient
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Explanation:
Both are correct. “Please call me back when you can,” would be correct. “Please call be back as soon as you can,” would be correct.
The “earliest” adds something: you indicate that from your end, there’s some urgency. Time could make a difference to what we can do. Call when you can, sooner would be better.
Either one is correct to say. Choose the one that conveys what you mean to convey. If it is urgent from your end, then “Please call when it’s convenient,” may send a message that doesn’t rise to your urgency. You’ve left your urgency out it. You are saying “call when you can,” which some will take as “Tra-la! I am busy traipsing and dawdling at the moment, but will return your call at my earliest delight!”
There are dozens, maybe hundreds of “correct” ways to give the information that you wish them to reach out to you in return. The best way is what conveys what you mean and want, with clarity and courtesy.
“Convenience” is good. Or “convenient.” It’s not an emergency. You don’t have to pull over and call from the roadside.
“Earliest” is good if what you really mean is that there is some urgency from your end. It is time-sensitive.
Throwing in “earliest” for some dang thing that could clearly wait ’til tomorrow or Monday is not incorrect. But you will expose yourself to the other as a person of poor judgment or consideration of another’s time. If I am a serious person, and I believe you are a serious person, and you have asked me to call at my earliest convenience, I will conveniently finish what I’m in the middle of doing - almost complete, must finish up - and I will scan my blocks of time for one I can push further up, or bump to make room, and I will make a convenience, conveniently. Not because you asked me to. You didn’t insert yourself in my schedule - you asked me to insert you where I could. That is earliest convenience: the time one can not-too-inconveniently make to call. Earliest convenience is their call - but you’ve indicated time matters.
When I call you back and the matter was time-sensitive, I’m glad I made room for the call. It proved not just convenient, but expedient. I’m grateful to you for tipping me off. I will act with alacrity to return your future calls when you indicate time-sensitivity. I have found you a sound judge of such things. Good to know.
If I call you back and it’s some dang thing that could clearly have waited ’til tomorrow or Monday, I don’t mention that. We’re on the call now, we take care of it now.
Going forward, I just know, okay, you speak carelessly about such things. When you say it, it doesn’t mean what it means when a person of nice judgment says it. It’s not a problem! Not offensive. Not incorrect. Now I know. Good to know. Convenient understanding of you for going forward.
Good job asking. In individual exchanges like these, people probably don’t even notice - it just goes subconsciously into their idea of you, their understanding of your reliability. If you speak carelessly using words you’ve heard, rather than knowingly put what you knowingly mean - to-the-point; no purposeless words - that’s all part of what people use to make their impression of you. How serious you are, how reliable, how focused - or how carefree. Carefree can be a delightful thing! Carefree doesn’t lack focus or reliability, necessarily. Carefree takes necessary cares effortlessly, naturally and without even counting them as cares - and shrugs off unnecessary cares as well, unnecessary. When carefree does mean lack of focus (that we share or value) or lack of reliability (in what we need or expect), well that’s what it means then. Tra-la! We take it in and understand, and we move on knowing better how this person is. Probably without even noticing, consciously.
Most people take people as they are; which is to say - as they give themselves. Judgment’s a very unnecessary care, where people are concerned. We don’t treat you differently because we have a judgment of you filed away to consult and act in accordance with. We treat you differently because self is difference. You are different, and we treat you as you’ve given yourself to us, to know. We take you as you are.
Choosing one’s words with care is, or should be, a simple matter. It certainly becomes so, the more you know what you mean, and say just what you mean. Some thought, some working-through you, some examination involved in the first part. But the second is just practice, practice, practice - and practice in this case is more enjoyable the more you do it! Anyway, it’s easy - you practice every time you say; it’s a habit that doesn’t take much getting used to, saying what you mean when you know what you mean. Practice perfects itself in play.
The choice is not serious, so much as meaningful.
Answer:
more corrected sentences :
1. You can call me whenever it's accessible for you.
2. Elect a time at your convenience and let me know when we can meet.
3. May I call you in your free time, please.
4. Could you, please, let me know when you would like to admit my call.
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