Message Forum: Re: Vague ponderings on the English language

Re: Vague ponderings on the English language

Posted By: Howard, on host 216.80.145.194
Date: Monday, May 26, 2003, at 13:15:30
In Reply To: Re: Vague ponderings on the English language posted by Mike, the penny-stamp man on Monday, May 26, 2003, at 11:18:22:

> My college philosophy professor made a big deal in class about the uselessness of most adverbs in general usage. The guy had the biggest intellect on our campus, and he has a point about how much waste overuse of quantifiers like very, quite, greatly, etc.
>
> But i think, at least for me, to rid my speech of such extras would require so much thought about HOW i was saying anything that i would perpetually forget WHAT i was saying.
>
> Mi "and i already do that enough" ke
Really?
H

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Message:	> > My college philosophy professor made a big deal in class about the uselessness of most adverbs in general usage. The guy had the biggest intellect on our campus, and he has a point about how much waste overuse of quantifiers like very, quite, greatly, etc. > > > > But i think, at least for me, to rid my speech of such extras would require so much thought about HOW i was saying anything that i would perpetually forget WHAT i was saying. > > > > Mi "and i already do that enough" ke > Really? > H
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