What ever happend to the ly-adverb

[nq:1]It seems almost everyone except me drops the 'ly'. Quickly becomes quick. Did everyone but me get the memo?[/nq]
That's hard fair. General speaking people still use them.

Ross Howard

[nq:1]It seems almost everyone except me drops the 'ly'. Quickly becomes quick. Did everyone but me get the memo?[/nq]
"Quick" has been a standard adverb since the 11th century AD. It looks like you're going to need a lot of memos before you're caught up on everything.

\\P. Schultz

Especial when they need to make a point.

[nq:1]It seems almost everyone except me drops the 'ly'. Quickly becomes quick. Did everyone but me get the memo? Jack[/nq]
If you're not quick you're deadly.

John Dean
Oxford

[nq:1]It seems almost everyone except me drops the 'ly'. Quickly becomes quick. Did everyone but me get the memo?[/nq]
A timely warning to us all, about a problem that could be costly to put right. We must act quick.
Richard Chambers Leeds UK.

Richard Chambers filted:
[nq:2]It seems almost everyone except me drops the 'ly'. Quickly becomes quick. Did everyone but me get the memo?[/nq]
[nq:1]A timely warning to us all, about a problem that could be costly to put right. We must act quick.[/nq]
Jack has made a most accurate observation...or a mostly accurate observation...odd...both adverbs, one with "-ly" and the other without

[nq:1] In any event, a bit of thought suggests that the suffix does often get dropped, but only in certain contexts...there may be a research paper in this..r[/nq]
It would be an easy one to write, too. Since "quick" is a perfectly good adverb, the writer of the paper can prove whatever point he cares to make, by declaring which instances of "quick" have had the suffix dropped and which

[nq:1]Jack has made a most accurate observation...or a mostly accurate observation...odd...both adverbs, one with "-ly" and the other without, and with very different meanings.. In any event, a bit of thought suggests that the suffix does often get dropped, but only in certain contexts...[/nq]
Oddly enough, I was thinking about this a few hours before I read this thread. When we say tha

[nq:1]It seems almost everyone except me drops the 'ly'. Quickly becomes quick. Did everyone but me get the memo?[/nq]
Do it quick! = Hurry up and do it!
(start doing it (more or less) right away)
Do it quickly! = Do it fast!
(start when you like, but do it quickly)
Of course, if you tell someone to do something quick, you would usually also like them to do it quickly. But ther

[nq:1]When we say that two things are the same, we often mean that they are the same for practical purposes, ... people may object to the second version, but it's a common enough usage (94 phrase-kilogoogles on "the exact same thing").[/nq]
"The exact same thing" is rare in BrE, I think.
Alan Jones