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katie - September 2, 2003 - 12:01 PM - ℓ

I have that problem with the word untimely. His death was untimely. So he died untimely-ly. Right?

srah - September 2, 2003 - 12:06 PM - ℓ

And "early". How about "in an untimely fashion"?

Cheryl - September 2, 2003 - 2:10 PM - ℓ

Mayb you can say weeklyly. But maybe you'd be wrong. No, wait...you would be wrong!

katie - September 2, 2003 - 2:26 PM - ℓ

Yes, but then untimely is an adjective. I want an adverb. And what's the noun, anyway? Untime? That sounds like something from Star Trek. "matter/antimatter", "time/untime".

richard - September 2, 2003 - 3:16 PM - ℓ

time/antitime

antigone/anti here

Damn Limey Jez - September 2, 2003 - 3:29 PM - ℓ

daily, weekly, monthly, yearly...er...decadely?

katie - September 2, 2003 - 3:39 PM - ℓ

Tee hee... damn limey.

Decadely would be pronounced deh-CAH-dly, or DEH-cud-ly. Because I said so.

Damn limey.

damn yankee srah - September 2, 2003 - 4:22 PM - ℓ

All I have to offer you are adverbial phrases. :(

a connecticut yankee - September 3, 2003 - 8:33 AM - ℓ

That's ok. We forgive you. The question is... will the damn limey Jez forgive me for calling him a damn limey?

a connecticut yankee - September 3, 2003 - 8:34 AM - ℓ

False advertising! False advertising! You say right here that HTML is allowed, but my strike tag didn't work, thus dissolving the comedic effect of my insult to Jez!

Damn Limey Jez - September 3, 2003 - 10:11 AM - ℓ

Well gee, sure y'all. Ah guess ah'd bedder practice mah 'merican yankee acceyent fo' sure, so as you stop callin' me a darn limey. This is how y'all talk, right?

srah - September 3, 2003 - 10:15 AM - ℓ

re: false advertising.

Yup. Suck it.

re: American accent.

Oh why can't the English learn to
Set a good example
To people whose English is painful to your ears
The Scots and the Irish leave you close to tears
There even are places where English completely disappears
In America they haven't used it for years

Mer - September 3, 2003 - 1:04 PM - ℓ

There's a rather rant-ish sub-section in A Biography of the English Language that mentions how modern speakers of English are growing uncomfortable with non-adverbs that end with -ly... but it's really just one of those things where we're over-thinking.

"I write weekly" and "I write weakly"-- well, likely enough, only one is correct, and you'll know it from context.

People who want the English language to be precise are really asking for too much, anyway. ;)

katie - September 3, 2003 - 2:31 PM - ℓ

I can't believe you passed up the opportunity to play off the Connecticut Yankee thing. Sigh.

Oh, and Damn Limey? You need to stop watching so many poorly-coached movie accents and actual come over here and hear one for yourself. Not mine though, it's horrendous.

srah - September 3, 2003 - 10:57 PM - ℓ

You're not from Connecticut.