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If you completely disagree, keep in mind “completely” is also an adverb. Some frameworks sell simplicity (setup, maintenance) as a feature, so that adverb woul
by ulizzle 3y ago
If you completely disagree, keep in mind “completely” is also an adverb.
Some frameworks sell simplicity (setup, maintenance) as a feature, so that adverb would be fitting.
But this is just infantilizing and a lot of people (maybe a universal trait) are annoyed by that.
- spondylosaurus 3y agoWhat? Adverbs are fine; there's no industry-wide dictum against adverbs. I think you might be mad at something different than the principles I'm outlining here. These are accepted standards of technical documentation.
- ulizzle 3y agoThis is basic English grammar, something you should have learned in grade school.
- spondylosaurus 3y agoYour grade school taught you that adverbs are a form of virtue signaling?
- ulizzle 3y agoNo one will fall apart and burst into tears because of an adverb they read in the mountain of documentation we have to read to get the job done. Navel-gazing of the highest order.
- spondylosaurus 3y agoYou lost me there again, my friend. Technical writing stylebooks draw no correlation between adverbs and nervous breakdowns. You seem to be tilting at an entirely different windmill than the one I'm tending to.
- TheCoelacanth 3y agoThat's fine, but put your marketing copy in your marketing, not in your docs.