The author claim that they're not re-inventing adverbs, but rather want a word that modifies another adverb (someone in the comments suggests an "adadverb"). But the example doesn't show this:<p>> “He quickly ate the mango in a distracted manner,” I wanted to write, “He distractedily quickly ate the mango,” because, among other reasons, I wanted to be more concise.<p>But in the first sentence, "quickly" and "distracted manner" both modify "ate," and so they are both simply adverbs.<p>While there could be some merit in trying to suggest a causal relationship between the two adverbs ("Because he was distracted, he ate the mango quickly"), that doesn't seem to be what's being suggested either.<p>So I can't really see the purpose of this. How does "distracted" <i>modify</i> "quickly" in the example? How is "quickly" itself different, now that it's been modified? I don't think it is, what's different is the way the mango is being eaten, so they are both simply adverbs for the same verb.<p>In any case, adverbs can already modify adverbs:<p>"He burped enormously loudly."