Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear

Re:Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear by jnbiche on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @12:06PM (#7225497)

When you unthinkingly use far too many adverbs in your writing, you clearly reduce an otherwise well-written piece to an increasingly confusing and complex mass of terribly overwrought words.

When you use too many adverbs in your writing, you reduce a well-written piece to a confusing mass of words.

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Re:Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear by Steuard on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @03:28PM (#7227036)

Is your point here that cramming extra adverbs into one's writing just for their own sake is poor style? That's what your example seems to illustrate, and I emphatically agree.

But when adverbs come up naturally in expressing an idea, I'd hate to suggest to anyone that it's a bad thing!

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Re:Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear by lclarkmichalek on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @03:56PM (#7227213)

Kind of a funny example, given that you change the meaning from one sentence to another.

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Re:Hemingway makes your writing bold and clear by jnbiche on Thursday February 13, 2014 @07:06AM (#7230857)

Precisely!

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