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'protectedly' - how does it sound to you? #1 (permalink) Sat Dec 23, 2006 13:55 pm   'protectedly' - how does it sound to you?
 

Hi

Could you say how the word protectedly sounds to you?

And generally, how do you deal with '-edly' formations (in particular, I meet a lot in the IT area). Some are strange and funny

non-piratedly, for example :)
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'protectedly' - how does it sound to you? #2 (permalink) Sat Dec 23, 2006 15:49 pm   'protectedly' - how does it sound to you?
 

Tamara wrote:
non-piratedly, for example :)

I just love techies. :D

Adverbs ending with -edly are not inherently bad, but the word protectedly does sound unlikely. Do you have a sentence to go along with that word?

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'protectedly' - how does it sound to you? #3 (permalink) Sat Dec 23, 2006 16:03 pm   'protectedly' - how does it sound to you?
 

Hi Amy

Quote:
Do you have a sentence to go along with that word?


(Today) I've heard it on the radio (BBC World), but I met it in writing (definitely more than once) being used, for example, as in the phrase:
'way/method for protectedly debiting an electronic payment'
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'protectedly' - how does it sound to you? #4 (permalink) Sat Dec 23, 2006 23:15 pm   'protectedly' - how does it sound to you?
 

Hi Tamara

I can't remember ever having actually heard (or seen) the word protectedly used myself. So, it sounds odd to me despite the fact that the logic of it works in your sentence. :?

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'protectedly' - how does it sound to you? #5 (permalink) Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:05 am   'protectedly' - how does it sound to you?
 

Thanks Amy.

...I never know how to deal with the formations that sound quite logical but are absent in dictionaries.

Another example if you want – adaptedly.
('adaptedly support', 'is adaptedly reused', etc)
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'protectedly' - how does it sound to you? #6 (permalink) Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:30 pm   'protectedly' - how does it sound to you?
 

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As more of a muddler than a solver, I submit:

PROTECTEDLY
ADAPTEDLY.

I hasten to add that I find the formation a poor writer's stopgap to better sentence structuring or vocabulary search: whatever is wrong with protectively and adaptively?
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