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I dismissed this article quickly and summarily! Adverbs are important and their loss in everyday speech (where I often notice it) is annoying.
by molbioguy 12y ago
I dismissed this article quickly and summarily! Adverbs are important and their loss in everyday speech (where I often notice it) is annoying.
- lionsdan 12y agoThey are also valuable for Tom Swifties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty#Examples http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty#Examples
- kazinator 12y agoI read it eagerly, receptively at first, but then eventually it became glaringly obvious that I must conclude the reading dismissively.
- psychometry 12y agoPerhaps if you hadn't dismissed the article so quickly, you'd have realized that it's not about everyday speech but rather written prose. Try again.