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Saturday, December 09, 2006

Arashi

Got this from Abigail's frenster profile. She posted a shoutout recently.

"Shakespeare once said parting is such as sweet sorrow. I think he used the wrong adjective"


How true.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think shakespear has a point~~but i donno wat is it


Andrew Ho

Aquavires said...

I once read an article condemning the use of adjectives.

William Zinsser: "Most adjectives.... are sprinkled into sentences by writers who don't stop to think that the concept is already in the noun."