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Thereโ€™s a famous piece of writing adviceโ€”offered by Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, and myriad writers in betweenโ€”not to use -ly adverbs like โ€œquicklyโ€ or โ€œfitfully.โ€ It sounds like solid advice, but can we actually test it? If we were to count all the -ly adverbs these authors used in their careers, do they follow their own advice compared to other celebrated authors? And do great books in generalโ€”the classics and the bestsellersโ€”use fewer adverbs?


In Nabokovโ€™s Favorite Word Is Mauve, statistician and journalist Ben Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the worldโ€™s greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued curious word nerds and book lovers for generations: What are our favorite authorsโ€™ favorite words? Do men and women write differently? Are bestsellers getting dumber over time? Which bestselling writer uses the most clichรฉs? What makes a great opening sentence? How can we judge a book by its cover? And which writerly advice is worth following or ignoring?


์–ด๋‹ˆ์ŠคํŠธ ํ—ค๋ฐ์›จ์ด, ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธ ํ‚น, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด "๊ธ‰ํžˆ"๋‚˜ "์ •ํ™•ํžˆ"์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ๋ง๋ผ๊ณ  ์ œ์•ˆํ•œ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ๊ธ€์“ฐ๊ธฐ ์กฐ์–ธ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ™•์‹คํ•œ ์กฐ์–ธ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ์ง€๋งŒ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ์‹คํ—˜์„ ํ•˜๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ? ๋งŒ์•ฝ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜์ง€ ๋ง๋ผ๋Š” ์กฐ์–ธ์„ ํ•œ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ ๋ชจ๋“  ํ‰๋ฒ”ํ•œ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์„ธ์–ด๋ณธ๋‹ค๋ฉด, ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋“ค๊ณผ ๋น„๊ตํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ๋“ค ์ž์‹ ์˜ ์กฐ์–ธ์„ ์ž˜ ์ง€์ผฐ์„๊นŒ? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ผ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ์ „๊ณผ ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ์…€๋Ÿฌ์™€ ๊ฐ™์€ ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์ฑ…๋“ค์€ ๋ถ€์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€?


ํ†ต๊ณ„ํ•™์ž์ด์ž ์ €๋„๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ์ธ ๋ฒค ๋ธ”๋žซ์ด '๋‚˜๋ณด์ฝ”ํ”„๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•œ ๋‹จ์–ด, ์—ฐ๋ณด๋ผ'์—์„œ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋“ค์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ ์†์— ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ ธ ์žˆ๋Š” ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ์˜ ํ’๋ถ€ํ•จ์„ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋ฌธํ•™ ์ฃผ์š” ์ž‘ํ’ˆ ๋ชฉ๋ก์— ๋น…๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋Œ๊ณ  ์™”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ฒœ ๊ถŒ์˜ ์ฑ…๊ณผ ์ˆ˜์–ต ๊ฐœ์˜ ๋‹จ์–ด๋“ค๋กœ ๊ตฌ์„ฑ๋œ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค๋ฅผ ์ •๋ฆฝํ•ด, ํ˜ธ๊ธฐ์‹ฌ ๋งŽ์€ ๋‹จ์–ด ์• ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด๋‚˜ ๋ฌธํ•™(๋…์„œ)์„ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์ˆ˜ ์„ธ๊ธฐ ๋™์•ˆ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ๋Ÿฌ์ผ์œผ์ผฐ๋˜ ์งˆ๋ฌธ๋“ค์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์ข‹์•„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋‹จ์–ด๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์ด์—ˆ์„๊นŒ? ๊ณผ์—ฐ ๋‚จ์ž์™€ ์—ฌ์ž๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์“ฐ๋Š”๊ฐ€? ์ง„์งœ ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ์…€๋Ÿฌ๋“ค์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ง€๋‚ ์ˆ˜๋ก ๋” ๋ฉ์ฒญํ•ด์งˆ๊นŒ? ์–ด๋–ค ๋ฒ ์ŠคํŠธ์…€๋Ÿฌ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ํด๋ฆฌ์…ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ๋งŽ์ด ๋‚จ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š”๊ฐ€? ๋ฌด์—‡์ด ํ›Œ๋ฅญํ•œ ์ฒซ ๋ฌธ์žฅ์„ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š”๊ฐ€? ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ํ‘œ์ง€๋กœ ์ฑ…์„ ํŒ๋‹จํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€? ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์–ด๋–ค ์ž‘๊ฐ€์  ์กฐ์–ธ์ด ๋ฌด์‹œ๋‹นํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋”ฐ๋ฅผ๋งŒํ•œ ๊ฐ€์น˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ?




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