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adverbophobia

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/03/27 10:51 UTC 版)

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adverbophobia (uncountable)

1. (informal, sometimes humorous) An excessive aversion to the use of adverbs, especially in writing literature.
   • 2024, Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Truth About English Grammar, Polity Press, →ISBN, pages 73-75:
     Adverbophobia / That leads us to the puzzling phenomenon of all the warnings in the how-to-write books. Why do they fear adverbs so much […] Well, it is my duty to warn you that the advice about avoiding adverbs is mistaken, for two rather obvious reasons. The first reason is that you can’t normally get rid of an adverb by making a better choice of verb, adjective, or whatever, because there just isn’t one. You can’t avoid the adverb rapidly in a sentence like It rapidly corroded by finding a verb that means “undergo corrosion in a short space of time”; […] And the second reason for not recommending avoidance of adverbs is that even if some inexperienced writers use adverbs where they didn’t need to (perhaps where they’re redundant, or maybe just to increase the word count of a required paper), that doesn’t mean everyone else should be told to do without adverbs all the time! Suppose it’s true that some dimwit tends to write He shouted loudly, not realizing that shouting is always loud, or writes We hurried off quickly because of a failure to understand what hurrying is. That shouldn’t be allowed to ruin it for the rest of us! If I choose to write He lingered uneasily or She responded bitterly, it’s nobody’s business but mine, and I don’t want purported writing experts telling me to take those adverbs out simply because of adverbophobia. […] Adverbs are a familiar feature of everybody’s writing. Stephen King asserts that the road to hell is paved with adverbs, but the moment he gets back to doing what he’s good at – writing stories of suspense and horror – he uses adverbs at will, just like the rest of us. In fact somewhat more. I checked quite a few pages of his writing, and around 8 percent was typical for him, both before and after he published On Writing. The first adverb in Insomnia (1994) is in line 1; the first one in Under the Dome (2009) is in line 3. Check for yourself.

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