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

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "melclaros" <melclaros at y...> 
wrote

> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "junediamanti" > > 
June:
> >  If someone says "I hate you" we can be fairly sure that they 
said 
> >it angrily.  


Mel: 
> Can we? Really? I can think of a few examples where that would most 
> certainly be a misreading. Of course most of them are in mushy 
> romantic scenes, but those do occasionally creep into stories, even 
> great literature.
 There are adverbs 
> in the language and they are there for good reason. They have a 
> valuable job to do. Is less more? Perhaps in some cases, yes.


Now Susan:
I'm afraid I have to agree with Mel.  There have been many times that 
I have said "I hate you!" while laughing and grinning.  Knowing what 
a persons mood is simply with the written word *without 
embellishments* is a very difficult thing to do.  Just my two cents!

Susan