Automatedly
A footnote to Geoff Pullum's
posting
on the Ly Detector (yes, that's what it's called)...
Geoff says:
Poor Gina Trapani has been duped into
thinking that a tool for hunting for adverbs would be a valuable
addition to the writer's toolbox. As a result she wasted some valuable
programming time. It's not her fault; it's [E. B.] White's fault.
Erin McKean, who first pointed me to Trapani's program (via the
enthusiastic
hackzine
site), provided the wry slogan: "Anything that's not worth doing is
worth automating." Stanley Peters hedged this: "Some things that
aren't worth doing are worth
automating." Geoff's position is that not everything that can be
automated is worth doing.
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Posted by Arnold Zwicky at March 5, 2007 05:16 PM