Adverbially yours

When I was a kid, when I was a babywriter, no one ever told me that adverbs were weak. I think I figured out independently that the right verb unmodified would be stronger (it is all about the verbs), but even so: I never developed that aversion to adverbs that seems very much embedded in contemporary authorial practice (and, particularly, in contemporary teaching; I have been involved with creative-writing courses that were devoted to the less-is-more school to the point of fetishism), and I use them cheerfully, determinedly, sometimes wilfully.

Today's example may be extreme, even extravagant, but even so: I aver that in context, "straighter" is not as strong as "more straightly".

I knew it!

Ever since I moved to this here US of A, I have listened to people saying "kudos" all around me, and every single time I have thought "Y'know, they say that like they thought it was the plural of 'kudo', but - nah, they couldn't possibly..."

Ahem. I have been looking at this forum where people 'like' or uptick or whatever an individual post by awarding it kudos - and there, at least, I am apparently absolutely right. If you have just one such uptick? You are awarded one kudo. And I wish I thought they were doing it ironically, but I do not.

Aurgh?