Answer: What is the difference between "fast" and "quick"?

[theemdash]

with examples from the Roadrunner, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate: SG-1 and Harry Potter

roadrunner1896 asks: What is the difference between "fast" and "quick"?"Fast" and "quick" can be adjectives, adverbs, or nouns. In struggling to come up with examples, I think the words are most interchangeable when used as adjectives generally describing speed, but

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[roadrunner1896]

I love that you added the Road Runner to your examples. :D

Thanks for explaining this again.

Meep Meep!

[theemdash]

Yes, I suddenly felt that I had been remiss in my first attempt. ;)

Also, you ask questions that are difficult! By the end of revising this I was so confused! Heh.

[roadrunner1896]

Nice to know that after all these years of our marriage I still manage to challenge and confuse you. :D

Keeps things interesting.

People should use more Looney Tunes examples to explain stuff. Everyone knows them and they are cute and funny. And they make me happy.

[amazonsun]

People should use more Looney Tunes examples to explain stuff. Everyone knows them and they are cute and funny. And they make me happy.

You are too cute! *hugs*

PS...good job on the question. :)

[seanchaidh]

Touch Daniel's artifacts and you'll find out that he can be quick tempered.
The action here of Daniel having a quick temper is instantaneous, an "animation" of anger.

This explains the movie title, "The Quick and the Dead."

[getaway_machine]

...it's wrong that this makes me want to write a drabble specifically around using these words. ::facepalm::

Anyway, very interesting! :)

[theemdash]

I would never encourage you to write a drabble. Never.

[theemdash]

do eet.