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Hey /lit/, what is your least favorite adverb?
Mine is 'unironically'.
>he uses adverbs
literally
>he unironically uses adverbs
i dont get why adverbs are so despised. seems so arbitrary
>>7445808
it's a meme, pleb-level writing advice spread around by hacks and mediocres
l fucking love adverbs
>>7445823
They're only an issue when they're redundent desu. Had this one girl write something along the lines of, "the flames burned hotly."
>>7445828
His soul swooned as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
Really should learn how to greentext, but there you go. Slowly did little after swooned without context, and turning around falling faintly was awkward as fuck. Sorry for this, but the narcissist in me needed to.
>>7445852
>critiquing Joyce's writing
Arrogance and pretension in their purest forms.
>>7445852
>correcting joyce
palpable narcissism
>>7445852
Pls be bait
>>7445852
>faintly
Nice adverb, pleb.
>>7445823
WB Yeats in his later verse
done
>>7445852
You got no style and no sense of rhythm.
You should chop your hands off to make sure that you would never write again for the sake of humanity.
>>7445942
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7wUeiKuw9s
Adverbs are only acceptable if they are used in a creative manner. If you want to see examples of this read Nabokov.
>>7445852
>these are the people that you discuss literature with.
>>7445864
Perfect dfw
>>7446071
>thumbnail
>>7445852
Omni what are you doing?
>>7445852
What an absolute madman
>>7445852
everybody's quoting you
>>7445603
>literally
>>7445852
>doesn't recognize Joyce
>dares to correct him
>doesn't know how to greentext
Holy shit my condiments!
reminder joyce used adverbs liberally
>>7445808
Its better to use a verb that combines the meaning of both an adverb and a verb.
In other words
"He walked slowly down the road." is generally poor writing compared to "He tiptoed down the road." or "He crept down the road."
>>7446410
>i was pretendingly acting retardedly
>awesomely
I will drop a text the second I see it. I refuse to subject myself to that word.
Also anyways, but that's not an adverb
>>7445621
>>7445635
It's more complicated than all of this, but the reason the advice is so frequently re-hashed is because an amateur would have done this:
>>7445828
His soul swooned slowly as he barely heard the snow faintly falling through the universe, like the descent of their last end, upon all the brightly living and the dead.
>>7445603
any words that end with -ally like the one you posted, they sound revolting
>>7446434
No. You take the meaning out of it. "As" implies that the soul is swooning with the snowfall while "when" implies it occurred upon the snowfall. And then without the slowly, you lose that alliteration and good sound in your head.
>>7446409
no it's not
i don't mean he tiptoed because he wasnt walking on his fucking toes
i don't mean he was trying to avoid notice
i mean he walked. slowly.
fuck off with your reddit tier writing advice. "HURR DURR EVERYTHING HAS TO BE CRAMMED INTO AS FEW WORDS AS POSSIBLE OR ELSE ITS BAD WRITING"
hemingway and white ruined literature
>>7445852
>Really should learn how to greentext
And people still fall for it.
>>7446412
and you fell for it
>>7446455
>hurr durr i tricked them good
>>7445603
Adverbs are generally bad. Unless you're REALLY GOOD, avoid them.
They're fine in IRL conversation, though.
>>7446461
sure did
>>7446448
Okay then
He sauntered down the road.
He traipsed down the road.
He ambled down the road.
He strolled down the road.
He promenaded down the road.
Take your pick. All of these are better than "walk slowly." They convey more meaning in less words while also limiting the reason the character is walking slowly in the first place.
>>7446470
but i literally don't meany of those. i just mean he walked. slowly. that's it.
stop thesaurusing your verbs that shit stopped being cool in 6th grade f a m
Squiggly
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
Look at how many adverbs this fucking hack used lmao!!!
>>7446464
>how do I greentext?
Adverbs aren't generally bad, but you should avoid inflationary usage!
niggardly
gaily
>>7446854
he heard some taps on the window and because of that he turned to it. then it started snowing again like it was before butthen stopped. he watched the bits of snow fall past the light that was outside. Then it was time for him to go out and go west. The weatherman got it right again and it was snowing everwhere. It was snowing everywhere around. Even the graveyard where Michael was buried after he died. The snow sat there very thick on all the graves. He felt a bit mopey as all the snow fell down and covered the living and the dead alike.
Really should learn how to greentext, but there you go.
>>7446884
Good edit. We should really ban adverbs from the English language.
>>7446889
>My swooning soul when this is the best I can actually write.
Thank fuck I will never amount to anything ever and nobody will ever give a shit what I write unless its a 4chan post.
>>7446905
>implying people give a shit on 4chan
>>7446433
Really, faggot?
>>7447134
walk slowly sounds like you're describing a robot
there should be a reason a person would walk slower than they normally would, and you can infer that by knowing how he walks, creeping? tiptoeing? sauntering?
