It's a good read, but by its very nature invites the following sort of riposte. I'll indulge in just one. > “Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives an

It's a good read, but by its very nature invites the following sort of riposte. I'll indulge in just one. > “Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs,” they insist. (The motivation of this mysterious decree remains unclear to me.) The motivation is so that ponderous language like > Following the platitudinous style recommendations of Elements would make your writing better if you knew how to follow them Might be edited to something like "Though many are mere platitudes, following the style recommendations of Elements would make your writing better if you knew how to follow them". The sentence, as written, suggests that the platitudes, specifically, as opposed to any which might be less uhhhh, platitudinous, would make your writing better. I don't believe this was the author's intent.