Lolly, lolly, lolly, get your adverbs here

[kalleah]

Today's Quote of the Day is from Stephen King, and it made me laugh.  platypus, I suspect you'll like this:

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."

Comments

[nonelvis]

THIS IS TRUTH. I wish it were easier to teach this one to novice writers, but it's hard enough just to get them to understand the difference between "it's" and "its."

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

it's hard enough just to get them to understand the difference between "it's" and "its."

I'll go out on a limb and admit I still have trouble with "lay" and "lie."

[nonelvis]

I suggest reading what Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage has to say about "lay" and "lie" before you admit you're still having trouble with determining when to use which word. The section is too long to reprint here, but essentially boils down to "do whatever the heck you want, because that's what authors from the 1700s on have been doing."

[ladyofgallifrey.livejournal.com]

The one that drives me nuts is folks using "loose" when they mean "lose"...

Sigh.

I must tell you about something I heard on the radio this morning that made me immediately think of you: a man (in Australia) was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Hum drum not so interesting news, right? The deadly weapon was a hedgehog!!!

Here's the news link just to prove I'm not making this up:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/man-uses-hedgehog-as-weapon-police-are-not-amused/1018

Don't let Dexter read this or know - the assault hedgehog in this story did not survive.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

I saw that news bit! In the version I saw, they weren't sure that the hedgehog was alive when the incident occurred. Shame on him anyway.

[platypus]

YES. It is so, so easy to get lazy and use a million adverbs. But such a pain in the ass to go back and justify every last one's existence.

Ken sings the adverb song to Moly sometimes (substituting in her name). It eventually morphed into, "Moly, Moly, Moly, lick your cat fur here." He also has a version of the Trogdor the Burninator song about Toeffe.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

Ken sings the adverb song to Moly sometimes (substituting in her name). It eventually morphed into, "Moly, Moly, Moly, lick your cat fur here."

Yeah, uh, I might have some other hedgehog tunes of my own. Sigh.