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Friday, December 02, 2011

Thought of the day: Sometimes, the adverb form's not worth it

Anyone who uses "virtuosically" in a sentence is not speaking virtuosically.

4 comments:

VEG said...

In high school my teacher said "99% of adverbs in creative writing, are unnecessary." to which I said, "Don't you mean 'completely unnecessary'?" and I got a detention...

dogimo said...

I would have quibbled with his or her comma.

Ooo! Shared detention with the Vegetable Assassin!

TimT said...

Precisamundo. Exactobily. Corright on.

VEG said...

Damn it, the comma was mine and even I cringed noticing it there. What can I say my delight at trashing adverbs totally eclipsed my comma sense. See what I did there? Comma sense! Bahaha! I slay me. (not)