"moving fast"/"slow it down" are not very idiomatic for a fan. You might say "The fan is too strong . ".
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AbilThe fan is moving fast. Can/could/will you slow it down a bit? I cannot stand cold.I would have written it differently:
Is the above correct? Which of the three choices would you suggest?
Mr WordyIt's nominally polite, but you can say it in such a way as to make it sound as if someone's obliged to do as you ask.This interests me. Could you give me a scenario, Mr. Wordy? Thanks in advance.
New2grammarThe site is not good at aligning dashes for some reason.I set it to fixed-width font in the HTML editor. It was fine in the edit pane, but now I see that the stoopid system just overrides it in the normal display. If it's not obvious, you can copy and paste the whole thing into any text editor that can show a fixed-width font (such as Courier).