Here is a curious adverb. From a short piece in the San Francisco Chronicle reporting the rescue of somebody who fell into the Bay:
Rescue swimmers were not slow to darely plunge into the frigid waters, their efforts coalescing with rescue boats 35 and 1 to carefully execute the operation.
Rescue swimmers were not slow to darely plunge into the frigid waters
I thinking 'daringly' works here. Never heard of 'darely', but who knows...
Exactly. Maybe an intern wrote that. ETA: I just noticed that the swimmers' efforts "coalesced" with the rescue boats. Writing that just keeps on giving. /snark
Exactly. Maybe an intern wrote that. ETA: I just noticed that the swimmers' efforts "coalesced" with the rescue boats. Writing that just keeps on giving. /snark
"Merged with the rescue boats" eh?
I think that there is only one time that has (allegedly) happened, see the Philadelphia Experiment.
Sounds painful.
I just noticed that the swimmers' efforts "coalesced" with the rescue boats
I rather like that usage - various rescue attempts merging to form a single one.
AJ
I think she meant to replace a misspelled direly by 'were not slow'
If you look her posts up, Eileen has a peculiar habit of half finished or mixed edits.
My guess would be that it's probably the result of change tracking conversion to html done very badly by the SF Chronicle.
I thinking 'daringly' works here. Never heard of 'darely', but who knows...
You beat me to it by six minutes. But in my defence, I was trying to get google to cough out examples of 'darely' used as an adjective. It actually produced a couple (amongst all the entries for 'dearly' which Google 'knew' I really wanted to see). Both cases appeared to be synonyms of 'daringly' so, although I couldn't find it in any dictionaries, it's not quite a neologism.
AJ
Rescue swimmers were not slow to darely plunge into the frigid waters
Perhaps there wasn't space for 'daringly'.
AJ
Something I learned in ROTC (and, no, I never served...): "Prior Proper Planning Prevents Piss-Poor Performance..."
But, sure, let's just make up another nonsensical word to save space...
Or "dearly plunge", "decidedly", "bravely/braverly", "demonstratedly", "demonsterally" or even "purposely plunge". Practically anything is better than "darely". Besides, wouldn't "darely" imply "stupidly", since they're so stupid they'd risk death and physical harm by taking unnecessary risks? Which leads us directly to "idiotically" (or "fruitlessly" if they miss their landing entirely).
This reads like someone trying to plagiarize by just rewording a sentence from another source.
I'm almost tempted to blame it on someone running it through an AI to 'punch things up' - that would fit with 'coalesced' - but AIs are somewhat less likely to come up with something like 'darely'. Google does come up with some hits for 'darely', but a cursory look at them doesn't show anything similar to 'daringly', which means it's unlikely an AI would have been trained on that meaning.
I'm almost tempted to blame it on someone running it through an AI to 'punch things up'
Or even on their own trying to punch it up. And attempting to interpret motive instead of straight reporting.
I tried to find a definition and nothing popped up. Perhaps it is an oversight by the Chronicle's editing staff.
Basically, with the continually rising prices of ink, paper and distribution expenses, newspapers have been a dying breed for some time now. So, why waste money on quality control editing when you're losing money hand over fist anyway?
Probably somebody messing with the language for fun, perhaps after being reprimanded for using bland language.
Rescue swimmers were not slow to darely plunge into the frigid waters
If the reporter was young enough to still confuse 'b' and 'd' and if the swimmers were from a nudist beach...
AJ