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Re: noun-like noun

tsuwm #188201 12/09/09 04:18 PM

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adv : in the manner of a gentleman he was sitting gentlemanly up in the ... taxi -- Saul Bellow

Not for me, though I like Saul's usage, but it's a shoehorned parsnipped word. Not all adverbs end in -ly and not all words which end in -ly are adverbs.

Ceci n'est pas un seing.

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