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15 March 2006 * Volume 02
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From: Ben J. Bloomgren <Ben.Bloomgren at asu.edu>
Subject: LL-L "Grammar" 2006.03.14 (09) [E]

Karl,

"He runs very fast.")It is odd, but i almost always say "quickly" in
such a case. Probably because I tend toward a conservative, pedantic
outlook.

My brother played sports all his life, and when it came to football,
American of course, he always talked about two concepts of runners. He would
say that this guy is fast, but that guy is quick. He would mean something
like this:

Fast meant sheer, raw speed. Those were the players that bust the
ninety-nine yard touchdowns off the kickoff. Quick players are those that
may not be able to juke out of a defender's grasp to run for a billion
yards, but they know what they're doing and they run fast enough to get the
job done. I'm not exactly hitting the quickness thing exactly on point, but
that's about what I remember of it. Being fast meant that you have raw speed
but you may not be able to throw a block at the right time. If you're quick,
you can't pull huge plays, but you can get there to do your job when needed.
I hope you see this, and I wonder how this fits into this discussion about
adverbial markings.
Ben 

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