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After looking over the link, I agree. In most of these cases, it's not really comparing the words, but their usage. For example, when you say something is "fas
by FredFredrickson 14y ago
After looking over the link, I agree. In most of these cases, it's not really comparing the words, but their usage.
For example, when you say something is "fast" you can only mean that its speed is high. If you say it's "stuck fast", fast is being used as a modifier (? my grammar lingo is rusty) of "stuck", and not as the actual descriptor.
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