> What I want to know is why the hell everybody seems
to have it in for the
> poor adverb these days? I *like* adverbs. This
smacks of part-of-speech
> discrimination to me.
What a heavy accusation. I think the problem with adverbs is
that they assume a general reaction or state-of-being for
every reader. "He said happily or sadly or mordantly or
abusively etc etc" doesn't tell me anything specific about
that particular moment in the life of the character. Just a
general generic blanket term. Describing action and movement
specifically just feels and sounds better to me.
My op, anyway.
Neil Smith
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