Thread:User talk:Blue/gerontocratic, cronyist oligarchy/reply (9)

Adjectives and adverbs are very susceptible to overuse; one per noun/verb is usually sufficient. Whenever I see that sort of writing, I want to set Samuel Taylor Coleridge's old schoolmaster on the writers: "Harp? Harp? Lyre? Pen and ink, boy, you mean!  Muse, boy, Muse?  Your Nurse's daughter, you mean!  Pierian spring?  Oh aye! the cloister-pump, I suppose!"