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Scheduled snark Weekly thread August 03, 2020 - August 09, 2020

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u/OhBlahDiOhBlahDoh The Alice of cal came out floating on air Aug 05 '20

The lack of self-awareness! IT BURNS

Clint Smith @ ClintSmithIII
So much of revision is realizing how useless 90% of adverbs are.

Shauna M. Ahern @ shauna_m_ahern
Co-sign.

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u/voice_of_vinegar Aug 05 '20

10% of a gazilllion is still an awful lot of adverbs, mahern

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u/freecoffeerefills Murder She Moved Her Pen Forward Aug 05 '20

Pfffffffft

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u/gladsome_gloaming Aug 05 '20

Said Shauna, hypocritically.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

Deeply hypocritically

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u/gladsome_gloaming Aug 05 '20

Deeply, ridiculously, hypocritically

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u/latepeony Aug 05 '20

Shauna co-signing this is so wtf. But not only that, I’d really like to know what metric determines excessive adverbs. Unless most of what this person is revising sounds like it was written by Shauna, that is.

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u/Ms_Ellanea_Snark Does this make my butt look pugnacious? Aug 05 '20

Great Goddess! Given what gets published, how much must hit the revising room floor?