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Smart TalkSMART TALK by Dr. Molto Breve
MOST IMPORTANTLY: Some patients at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired are adverb-compulsives. They are usually treated at the Alfred Kahn Clinic, because this disorder is related to William F. Buckley Syndrome.
Before intensive therapy trains them to conclude with, "and most important...," they not only say most importantly but also firstly, secondly, and lastly, giving themselves an aura of self importance. We therapists enjoy the irony that they are speaking or writing importantly.
Making the same grammatical error, they always feel badly about others' misfortunes.
Being a failed attempt to cover insecurity about one's failure at fluency in English as a First Language (EFL), adverb compulsion isn't at all pretty.
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