Comments on: Plip, plip… http://www.art-machine.org/plip-plip/ Just another former infatuation junkie Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:19:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Fred http://www.art-machine.org/plip-plip/comment-page-1/#comment-359 Fred Wed, 17 May 2006 15:42:04 +0000 http://art-machine.thudfactor.com/?p=829#comment-359 <p>Verbs like “asked” and “yelled” aren’t too bad, but I agree, that’s probably as far as you should take it. You certainly shouldn’t use these words in place of “said” just because you can, just for variety’s sake alone.</p> <p>In a similiar vein, I present:<br />“Novelist Thinks People Shrug 10 Times More Than They Actually Do.”</p> <p>http://www.theonion.com/content/node/48465</p> <p>It’s the adverbs after “said” that bug me. If I had a nickel for every time one of J.K. Rowling’s characters said something “darkly”... What does that even <strong>mean</strong>? I know what she thinks it means. I know what it’s supposed to mean in context. But how does one speak “darkly”?</p> <p>By the by…those mix CDs coming along anytime…? (he said, darkly)</p> Verbs like “asked” and “yelled” aren’t too bad, but I agree, that’s probably as far as you should take it. You certainly shouldn’t use these words in place of “said” just because you can, just for variety’s sake alone.

In a similiar vein, I present:
“Novelist Thinks People Shrug 10 Times More Than They Actually Do.”

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/48465

It’s the adverbs after “said” that bug me. If I had a nickel for every time one of J.K. Rowling’s characters said something “darkly”... What does that even mean? I know what she thinks it means. I know what it’s supposed to mean in context. But how does one speak “darkly”?

By the by…those mix CDs coming along anytime…? (he said, darkly)

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