Comments on: Good words, right order.

By: Verbivore

Verbivore — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 08:26:42 +0000

[quote]It reminds me of the horror some people feel when you end a sentence with a preposition.[/quote]
Ah yes, that old chestnut. It was a “rule” that a master of the English language, Winston Churchill (recommended reading!), would not put up with.

“[...] up with which I will not put!” was his reply to some editorial interference on the matter of a terminal preposition.

By: Heidi Breton

Heidi Breton — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:35:46 +0000

Hey, Verbivore!

Thanks for stopping by, I appreciate it.

It seems to me that there is a bit of a backlash from the overuse of adverbs resulting in an under-use. It’s been so drilled into people that adverbs are bad, they’re having trouble reconciling to using them in the appropriate places.

It reminds me of the horror some people feel when you end a sentence with a preposition.

Heidi

By: Verbivore

Verbivore — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:43:36 +0000

Heidi: Hey — found your site and like it!

I also enjoyed that adverbs book and agree with its message.

Something that annoys me is the growing use of adjectives where adverbs ought to be used; this seems to be a particularly US-English phenomenon, as in the former Apple Computer tag line “think different” (think differentLY!, please). (And yes, I’m otherwise an Apple Mac fan.