Catch and kill ... adjectives?

[Joel S. Berson]

Reported on another list:

>The book reviewer on NPR's "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross gave a heads
>up today to a new book on grammar: _When You Catch an Adjective,
>Kill It: The Parts of Speech for Better And/Or Worse[_] by Ben
>Yagoda. Among his witticisms is that the only acceptable use of
>"really" is in "imitations of Katharine Hepburn, Ed Sullivan and Elmer Fudd."

Perhaps the news above was taken out of context.  So I trust at the
moment of this witticism he was speaking not of adjectives, but of adverbs.

Joel

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