Re: Looking for a case: counting

Tristan McLeay wrote:

>On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Joe wrote:
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>>Philippe Caquant wrote:
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>>>I don't think that 'with a hammer' is an adverbial
>>>concept. I never thought of hitting something
>>>'hammerly'. It is instrumental. It is something quite
>>>different from 'many times', which is a process
>>>quantifier as I said.
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>>-ly forms adverbs from adjectives.  I suppose the correct way to make an
>>adverb there would be 'hammerfully'..
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>I've used 'hammerly' (well, not 'hammerly', but +ly on a noun) to mean the
>instrumental before... No need to be entirely too pedantic.
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'too pedantic'? There is such a thing?

I'd probably say 'hammerwise', under the influence of Newspeak.