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"Dread" vs "dreaded" in the Conrad bio
editHello. From thefreedictionary.com:
Usage Note: The adjective dread meaning "causing terror or fear" is often supplanted by the participle adjective dreaded. In our 2015 survey, 88 percent of the Usage Panel found the use of dreaded acceptable in the sentence After communicating with the enemy, Corporal Adams was labeled with the dreaded epithet "traitor." By contrast, only 69 percent of the Panel found the use of dread in the same sentence acceptable, while roughly one-third found its use unacceptable. It seems that dreaded is not merely gaining ground as an alternative to dread but actually replacing it as the adjective of choice to mean "causing fear."
Please reconsider your change and restore the term "dreaded." 76.128.41.166 (talk) 21:26, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
- Wiktionary gives the current meaning of the adjective "dread" as "Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dread#Adjective
- Hence, as Favonian points out, in the "Joseph Conrad" article there is no need to replace the adjective "dread" with the adjective "dreaded". Indeed, "dread' reads the more gracefully.
- Nihil novi (talk) 13:57, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
Hermes
editHello mr Favonian. Ive asked sorry what else Should i do??? Why did you deleted my edits??? Hermes is also the god of Magic and Sleep. He was closely associated with Magic and his caduceus is said to induce Sleep to persons. 2A02:1388:2091:BF38:0:0:9E35:E196 (talk) 18:44, 12 June 2024 (UTC)