I like adverbs! But I must admit the author of that article has a point, Harry Potter and the Hallows of Death has more of a ring to it.
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Laga - Dec 27, 2006 7:35:45 pm PST #1731 of 28160
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Gris - Dec 27, 2006 7:57:11 pm PST #1732 of 28160
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"Best" is an adverb, right? (Adjectives modify nouns, while adverbs mofidy verbs and adjectives.)
Only if it's essays by the best Americans. Otherwise, "best" is modifying "Essays" and is thus an adjective. I think. In fact, I'm not sure that "best" can ever be an adverb - certainly, I'm having trouble thinking of a case.
I do think that adverbs are allowed in titles, however. And as you say, "Deathly" is not an adverb in that title, I would think, since the "the" definitely implies that the hallows, whatever they are, are at least a noun.
I still hate the title, though.
DebetEsse - Dec 27, 2006 11:35:46 pm PST #1733 of 28160
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Best is an adjective in that case (and in most). It would be an adverb if you didn't hyphenate "best-laid plans", not that I'm sure that wouldn't be incorrect.
If "deathly" is not the adjectival form, I'm not sure what is. "Deathy" is not a word, nor "deathous". It can be an adverb: "deathly pale" (pale being an adjective describing something), but I see no issue with using it as an adjective, as well.
In conclusion, blog-writer-whose-page-will-not-load, if you use an incorrect example to make a point (in this case about her over-use of adverbs), it will make me think you do not know what you're talking about.
Laga, Hallows of death, to me, means something else. Those would be, in my head, ghosts that are going to kill you (synonymous with deadly hallows). Deathly hallows are...well, really dead ghosts...or something like that.
Laga - Dec 28, 2006 1:01:41 am PST #1734 of 28160
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Topic!Cindy - Dec 28, 2006 2:47:44 am PST #1735 of 28160
What is even happening?
Or death-like saints?
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 28, 2006 3:16:40 am PST #1736 of 28160
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Doesn't any one else think that 'Hallows' could be a place-name or place-name element? That's the other meaning I'm familiar with for it.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 28, 2006 3:41:10 am PST #1737 of 28160
What is even happening?
That's not "hollow" or "hollows"?
Am-Chau Yarkona - Dec 28, 2006 4:46:04 am PST #1738 of 28160
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
That's a place-name element too, it's true, but I'm sure 'hallows' is as well.
Connie Neil - Dec 28, 2006 4:50:36 am PST #1739 of 28160
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I'm thinking it's a reference to Halloween in some form, especially as Harry's parents were killed on Halloween. Deathly Hallows sounds to me like things are coming full circle.
dcp - Dec 28, 2006 5:51:43 am PST #1740 of 28160
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Doesn't any one else think that 'Hallows' could be a place-name or place-name element?
ISTR it from The Return of the King.
Wasn't the area in Minas Tirith with the tombs of the kings called the Hallows?