Adverbially mine
Feb. 2nd, 2012 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceThere are various fetishisms that possess the writerly community, that people like to hammer like nails into innocent newbies as though they had the crucifixial force of law: thou shalt not write in passive voice! (with its corollary of any use of the word 'was' is passive!), or thou shalt heed Strunk & White [or Chicago, or the authority of someone else's choice] in all things!, or thou shalt surely expunge all thy adverbs, or...
Now hold hard there one little minute.
I happen to like adverbs, me. I find them useful. Not in excess, of course - nothing in excess: that's another rule - but nevertheless and none the why. I like 'em, and I use 'em, and I'm not ashamed of it.
Particularly, in recent years, I have been fond of the adverbs of all-embracingness: absolutely and entirely and so forth.
Anybody out there ever seen utmostly?
Well, you will now. Or in ten months, at least. It's going in Pandaemonium.
Now hold hard there one little minute.
I happen to like adverbs, me. I find them useful. Not in excess, of course - nothing in excess: that's another rule - but nevertheless and none the why. I like 'em, and I use 'em, and I'm not ashamed of it.
Particularly, in recent years, I have been fond of the adverbs of all-embracingness: absolutely and entirely and so forth.
Anybody out there ever seen utmostly?
Well, you will now. Or in ten months, at least. It's going in Pandaemonium.