heeee! thank you very much! and allow me to reassure you - i certainly don't mean that i eliminate all of them from my writing, just that you have to watch where you put them. if you're using them for character voice in the narration, you have to consider if they make the character's voice as opposed to letting them slip through because they're your voice. (i deleted "a little" probably over fifty times from "instantaneous", but there were still plenty of weasel words left in the final draft!)