Are the following sentences acceptable to native speakers?   I want it so bad. The children grew up happy and healthy. Jimmy works hard. He followed her quick.   What adjectives can be used as adverbs? Are there rules for that?
Is it acceptable to say "We'll get back to you as quick as we can"? Is "quick" a flat adverb in this case?
How do I edit the boot order in the GRUB menu to have Windows first? I have a dual boot on my computer of Windows 7 and Xubuntu 12.10. The Linux boot is 1st and the Windows 2nd. I would like to reverse the boot order in the GRUB menu. I need to know the steps to go about editing GRUB. I do most of my work on Windows and need it to be 1st so I can boot up and not watch it. From time to time certain chat rooms (JavaScript and probably PHP, too) attract the attention of a fellow help vampire who thinks he can start sucking from the people in there.  Often their message end up being flagged as offensive (and those flags are likely to be validated, too, because people are annoyed by such behaviour) but it's kind of an inappropriate use of those flags.  I'm proposing a new chat flag type, which is especially meant for help vampires. Flagging it would present the flag to 10k users and owners of the room where the flag originated (no matter how much rep they have). 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