Link: Ly Detector awesomely finds -ly words
Lifehacker has a program on the lookout for adverbs. It'll find and highlight all words that end in -ly on websites that you specify. Quote:
"If you're at all familiar with Strunk and White, you know that excessive use of adverbs - words that end in -ly - isn't a sign of strong writing. All of us writers struggle with sentence-weakening generally's and relatively's at times, but now there's a Greasemonkey script that highlights adverbial transgressions on the web automatically."[via Hackszine]
12 Comments:
because we all know that Adverbs are The Devil ;-P
"you're right!" (he said decisively)
Seriously.
what's wrong with using adverbs liberally?
i am constantly using adverbs. lovingly of course :)
I have no idea, still, why you posted this.
You spelled 'detector' wrong.
-points and laughs-
Also don't get the problem with adverbs. All people's examples of bad usage are like "he lazily walked down the block." Fine.
But what about "It can be easily shown that..."? I mean, that comes up in technical papers all the time. (And it is a mutually-exclusive problem from the passive voice of that sentence).
ha, i'm such a n00b. thanks anonymous
Question: how DO you communicate "he lazily walked down the block" without using adverbs?
Things this blog is good at: making fun of bad papers.
Not so good: answering my damn questions!
joel! so harsh! tehe
Post a Comment
<< Home