When I visited Mexico I stayed in a hotel where I needed to ask in my broken Spanish for a towel. The hotel employee told me "ahorita te las llevan" which she

When I visited Mexico I stayed in a hotel where I needed to ask in my broken Spanish for a towel. The hotel employee told me "ahorita te las llevan" which she wrote on a piece of paper for me since I looked confused and didn't understand the response verbally. I looked up ahorita in my dictionary which translated it as "soon", which clarified things instantly. So I was a bit surprised that the author of this article made ahorita out to be such a complicated concept when in fact the word "soon" seems to be an apt translation, and is used in English in much the same nebulous way. If only this poor fellow had had the same dictionary as I did he would have saved some time and frustration, but perhaps not had a good enough story to write a BBC article about.