Content tagged noun

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On adjectives. (Piece misses my favourite line about the (mis)use of adjectives: “Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs.  … gulfstream/1377

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[...] computers are notoriously bad at hyphenation. When the typesetting of newspapers began to be fully automated, jokes about "the-rapists who pre-ached … quotes/168

But the Englishman will innocently use many words and phrases that have indecent significances in the United States, quite lacking in England, _e.g._, … quotes/64

Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place. -- … quotes/13