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Re:Show HN: Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform We... by drb91 on Thursday August 02, 2018 @05:59PM (#17675824)

I was taught in (american) school adverbs are a lazy and informal form of expression. While I didn't agree at the time, I use them now only vanishingly rarely. ;)

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Re:Show HN: Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform We... by dragonwriter on Thursday August 02, 2018 @06:11PM (#17675915)

> I was taught in (american) school adverbs are a lazy and informal form of expression.

I've certainly (in the same place) heard that heavy adverb use is a “writing smell” in much that way, but the point of that was very much not to substitute the use of adjectives serving as if they were adverbs for actual adverbs.

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Re:Show HN: Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform We... by guiambros on Thursday August 02, 2018 @10:37PM (#17676952)

Off-topic, but I love Stephen King's comments [1] regarding adverbs.

[1] https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/03/13/stephen-king-on-adv...

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Re:Show HN: Life – A secure, blazing-fast, cross-platform We... by drb91 on Thursday August 02, 2018 @06:47PM (#17676098)

True. "blazing-fast" sounds almost like a pidgin variant to me.

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