Re: ?? Re: a "natural language" ?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 4, 2004, 1:12 |
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On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:38:17PM +0000, Joe wrote:
> The only suppletive form that I can think of that still retains a
> seperate root is 'fast~quickly', if that counts.
I don't think so. At least IMD, "fast" and "quick" are both still in
productive use despite being nearly exact synonyms. The adverbial form
of "fast" is irregular - zero-suffixed "fast", as in "Run fast!" -
but not suppletively supplied by "quick".
-Marcos