In Defense of Adverbs
or,
The Temporarily Modified v. Modifying Temporally
Adjectives are weak because they rely on the verb to-be. An adjective is. Verbs to-be are weak because they rely on the instant. To-be changes the very next moment— that’s the nature of being.
Active verbs overcome the moment. You don’t act for only an instant, actions start one instant, to end in a later instant. Any action needs at least two units of time.
So. Adverbs: when an adverb modifies an adjective, the weakness is amplified quadratically. Any adverbially adjectival phrase is even more bogged down in the moment. Oof, that last sentence gives me the heebee-jeebees— I’d better add another, oof.
However, in my theory, when we modify an active verb adverbially— free from the weakness of the moment— we can modify strongly, in detail, and with economy of language. As long as we can act, we can act in diverse, specific ways; whenever we may use a single word to distinguish how, we should.
I also think -ly has a pretty sound. It’s an Old English construction— can’t beat that West Germanic stuff.
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