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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Stefano Vaj wrote on Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:39 PM,<br></span>On 12 May 2013 21:46, Harvey Newstrom <<a href="mailto:mail@harveynewstrom.com" target="_blank">mail@harveynewstrom.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Indeed. Steven King says to *<b>show</b>* how a person is behaving by choosing the best descriptive action verb that actually depicts the action. No adverb is necessary unless the chosen verb fails to depict the action such that an adverb needs to be added after the fact to describe the action even further. Instead of “He closed the door forcefully,” King would prefer “He slammed the door.”</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>> (</span>why don't you use "thou", thus avoiding any ambiguity as to the number of people you are addressing?).<br><br><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Good point. Even less ambiguous would be a complete set of ordinal pronouns.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thone, Thou, Thee, Thour, Thive, Thix, Theven, Theight, Thine, Then, Theleven, Thwelve, etc….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>--<br>Harvey Newstrom, CISSP CISSP-ISSAP CISSP-ISSMP CSSLP CISA CISM CRISC CGEIT IAM<br><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>