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"fast forward" in an adverbial phrase
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How can the compound "fast forward" be used as an adverb?
What would be its opposite? Can "slow backward" be its opposite if the context is poetic? What would be its corresponding adverbial expression then?
What would be its opposite? Can "slow backward" be its opposite if the context is poetic? What would be its corresponding adverbial expression then?
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I am translating a text into English. It is a piece of prose in which the author plays upon words. The main character of the story reads texts using the fast forward option. Physically one cannot do that, but the author imagines he can do it.
"Rewind" would be an option, because it is the opposite of "fast forward". However, the thing is that "rewind" means something as fast as "fast forward" and the text suggests that it is a slow type of motion, as if the character wishes to better understand what the text says by reading it backwards or against the grain.
I am not sure I have made myself understood. Let's see...
I am translating a text into English. It is a piece of prose in which the author plays upon words. The main character of the story reads texts using the fast forward option. Physically one cannot do that, but the author imagines he can do it.
"Rewind" would be an option, because it is the opposite of "fast forward". However, the thing is that "rewind" means something as fast as "fast forward" and the text suggests that it is a slow type of motion, as if the character wishes to better understand what the text says by reading it backwards or against the grain.
I am not sure I have made myself understood. Let's see...
I think to make fast forward an adverb, you just use it as one.
He lived fast-forward. (I put in a hyphen there to make it clear that it's a single phrase.) he read fast-forward.
My DVD player talks about "reverse" and "fast reverse". Rewind is, I think, left over from VHS tapes; I don't know if it's generally used so much these days.
He lived fast-forward. (I put in a hyphen there to make it clear that it's a single phrase.) he read fast-forward.
My DVD player talks about "reverse" and "fast reverse". Rewind is, I think, left over from VHS tapes; I don't know if it's generally used so much these days.
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