To mollycoddle grammahooligans?

I think too that the exagerated wish to find one word for a concept is often a waste of time, if not just irritating. Unless the one word is better, more imaginative (in the sense of procuring an image) than the concept. Ex. The expression 'Indian sit' or 'taylor's sit' (still two words Adj.! ) is shorter and more to the point than 'sitting legs crossed'or 'sitting cross-legged'. (I think)
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They have a point. Nouns and verbs work better especially when you're trying to paint a picture with words. Adjectives and adverbs are to nouns and verbs as painting is to stenciling.

This comparison is really ....
It all depends on which adjective at which place with which noun.
Or adverb with which verb. Like in painting the essential is never the what of the means of expression, but how they are used.