Sunday, May 22, 2016

‘It’s Cheap Words I Hate, And I Hate Adverbs’


Christian Lorentzen: “Let’s begin with the big problem. The adverb is an incoherent lexical category, a catchall. How are ‘there,’ ‘yesterday,’ ‘quite,’ ‘assiduously,’ and ‘indeed’ all members of the same family?”

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