The number of adverbs I've just deleted from my novel! It doesn't seem like enough really. Vim is like magic and I've learnt a magic spell to delete all adverbs. It is consisely written out as
:%s/\s*[a-zA-Z]\{-}ly\([^a-zA-Z]\)/\1/g
And no, I don't know exactly how it works either. But you can see why it feels like magic?
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