Thursday, March 22, 2007

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]

10 Comments:

Blogger Ed Cormany said...

because we all know that Adverbs are The Devil ;-P

7:44 PM  
Blogger AHFB said...

"you're right!" (he said decisively)

3:24 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Seriously.

1:51 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

what's wrong with using adverbs liberally?

4:41 PM  
Blogger whit said...

i am constantly using adverbs. lovingly of course :)

6:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have no idea, still, why you posted this.

8:55 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You spelled 'detector' wrong.

-points and laughs-

3:07 PM  
Blogger AHFB said...

ha, i'm such a n00b. thanks anonymous

5:11 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Question: how DO you communicate "he lazily walked down the block" without using adverbs?

10:50 PM  
Blogger whit said...

joel! so harsh! tehe

8:51 PM  

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