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

Oct 29, 2007 12:04

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 ( Read more... )

words:definition, word choice:subtleties, language:word origins, word choice:similar words, pos:adjectives, word choice:synonyms, !answer, author:theemdash

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roadrunner1896 October 29 2007, 16:42:38 UTC

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

Thanks for explaining this again.

Meep Meep!

roadrunner1896 October 30 2007, 22:29:37 UTC

You can see amazing? Because that is how I am.

amazonsun October 30 2007, 22:31:02 UTC

Yes...because I'm like a superhero with my visual powers of observation!

roadrunner1896 October 30 2007, 22:33:48 UTC

Awesome.

theemdash October 29 2007, 18:50:08 UTC

The good news is that all the red ink will wash off. ;)

amazonsun October 30 2007, 22:21:41 UTC

Oh good! I feel much better now. ;)

theemdash October 29 2007, 18:19:27 UTC

Yes, I'm glad that our marriage life still has surprises.

roadrunner1896 October 29 2007, 18:22:17 UTC

As long as non of these surprises consists of one of us getting the other pregnant, I can live with that.

theemdash October 31 2007, 00:21:04 UTC

That would be awkward.

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