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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Drive Slow (and Think Fast)
Message-ID: <1854@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 22:13:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 22 22:13:41 1985
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Summary: 

Old-fashioned prescriptive grammarians agree that one ought to drive slow
(at a low rate of speed) rather than slowly (with poor reflexes).

See below for a quote from Fowler's MODERN ENGLISH USAGE

In spite of the encroachments of -ly (see UNIDIOMATIC -LY), slow maintains
itself as at least an idiomatic possibility under some conditions even
in the positive (how slow he climbs!, please read very slow), while in the
comparative and superlative slower and slowest are usually preferable to
more and most slowly.  Of the conditions, the chief is that the adverb
and not the verb, etc. should contain the real point; compare "We forged
slowly ahead," where the slowness is an unessential item with "Drive as
slow as you can," where the slowness is al that matters.

--Lee Gold (M.A., English)