Adverbs can be your friends WAS: Re: The Return of Tom Swift

[pippin_999]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "junediamanti" 
<june.diamanti at b...> wrote:

> 
> Back to your points above, I agree totally (she agreed, totally)- 
> but I believe that the content of the dialogue when written well 
> should preclude the need for the Swifty.  If someone says "I 
hate 
> you" we can be fairly sure that they said it angrily.  Essentially, 
> I find "swifties" rather intrusive when I'm reading.  It can reach 
> the point that I start looking for them, rather than concentrating 
> on the story. 

One of the things that makes JKR's writing so accessible to 
young  people as well as adults who haven't read much fiction 
before is those swifties, IMO. It takes experience with both real  
life and the conventions of fiction-writing before you can decode 
emotional content from  speech and gestures alone. The 
adverbs make it simpler. 

Pippin