Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>]

Hi David,

I don't know which variant dialect of English you are using but the  
following sentence doesn't make much sense to me (other than comic  
value).

James Christian

Quoting David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>:

> Hi James,
>
> I've thought about this a little more and even the fastest action
> possible for a given animal may sometimes be acceptably referred to with
> "plod". Eg:
>
> (1) The horse was plodding at a gallop.
>
> In this example, the horse will be moving at maximum speed. "Plodding"
> refers to the sound of the movement, not the speed of the movement.
>
> Regards,
> David Kummerow.
>
>
> > Hi James,
> >
> > > Hi David,
> > >
> > > I believe this has already been demonstrated to you. It's all a case
> > > of relativity. If we say somebody runs quickly we expect their run
> > > pace to be above average run pace. When we imagine somebody plodding
> > > quickly we expect the plod pace to be quicker than average but still
> > > somewhat slower than average walking pace. Your use of the word
> > > 'quickly' does not mean that the person was moving quickly. It just
> > > means that their plod pace was quicker than average.
> >
> > James, I've already told you that the use in Australian English has no
> > contextual relativity implied. Sure, "plod" has been chosen because the
> > meaning of the word is suitable to designate "walking" vis-a-vis
> > "running". But the use I'm referring to can also be used of running.
> > Probably not sprinting, but running would be acceptable. The use has to
> > with heaviness or sound, not slowness. And like I already stated, it is
> > quite difficult to see how "slow" is the pure uncancellable semantics of
> > the word in any case -- as if "plod" means "slow". It does not. It means
> > "laborious walking" or "doing action indicated by adjunct phrase slowly"
> > or "heavy walking".
> >
> > Regards,
> > David Kummerow.
>
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