Hear me out: doubleplusgood
I don’t know if this is a very good idea
Very is overused but has its uses. I think it’s a good rule of thumb to avoid using it too much if you want greater impact, although eliminating it entirely would be a loss overall. What gives greater impact is the nuance that comes with having different words with similar meanings. Having a high impact word or phrase necessarily means having something lower impact to contrast against.
Also, the intensification with very isn’t quite the same as using the listed intensified words. Challenging is intensified hard as opposed to easy but not to soft. In human terms boiling is very hot and opposed to freezing, but what does that make the sun? It’s not a liquid turning into a gas.
Oh, and are people still against using literally to mean intensified figuratively?
What’s the alternative to very figurative?
No.
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Listen, I’m too very exhausted to read this very lengthy, and very tedious list.
Listen, I’m too very exhausted to read this very lengthy, and very tedious list.
Listen, I’m fatigued beyond imagination and incapable of reading this prosaic litany of mundane drivel.
That is something up with which I will not put.
This has nothing to do with grammar.
Doesn’t matter, it’s a very useful list to counter tik-tok brain damage.
One could say it’s the very thing we need.
Stop saying very
If we are trying to counter brain damage then it actually does matter that we use the correct words for things.
That’s kind of what I was saying. Or rather: eloquence helps against becoming dumber.
Very true. Grammar is a lovely old woman.
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Not grammar
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A lot of these have different connotations
“Hmmm you’re very dirty 😏”
“Hmmm you’re filthy 😏”
“That you are able to take responsibility for your your mistakes is very big of you.”
“That you are able to take responsibility for your your mistakes is huge of you.”
Nope, not the same.
As a personal thing, I’ve always detested that usage of the word big. More so than any of these ‘very’ replacements, there are so many words available to convey the meaning of that big.
It’s big of you to say that
/shakes_fist
You come over here and say that to my face, you french sneeze!
Oh yeah ? Well your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
On second thought, let’s avoid lemmy.nz. 'Tis a silly place.
I’m afraid I’m going to need a shrubbery. A big one.
Oh big man thinks he’s big scary
It is definitely not a grammatical issue, but it a good rule of thumb for writing, particularly academic writing. One of the first things that was drilled into me as an English major was to drop, “very,” and find a better adjective.
Also, yeah, a lot of these are very poor matches, especially without context, but one of my favorite things about the English language is that it is a very large, redundant language, but none of our words have the exact same connotation. Big, large, huge, enormous, gigantic, tremendous, mammoth, gargantuan, and humongous are all technically synonyms, but all conjure different images in the reader.
But yeah, telling someone to say, “fragile,” instead of, “very weak,” is dumb, given they could mean, “delicate,” or, “feeble.” And if you’re not writing a term paper, just say, “very.”
Yeah, “idle” is much milder than “very lazy” imo
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“Very busy” and “overloaded” are wildly different things.
As are very hot and boiling, very lazy and idle, very nervous and anxious, and like a good third more of these.
Australian Version
Χ very tired √ fucking knackered Χ very poor √ fucking skint Χ very thirsty √ dry as a dead dingo's donger```Very busy = flat out like lizard drinking
Not enough swearing to be truly Aussie
Spoiler
Cunt.
I’ve never been too interested in Australia, but after becoming the world’s foremost expert on Bluey, I’m starting to like it more and more. May have to visit one day.
Bluey is heavily edited for international audiences. It’s mostly all the swearing that’s removed, but not exclusively.
The season 3 episode ‘The Decider’ is 12 minutes longer in Australia. As the game goes on, Bandit and Lucky start pounding the rum and cokes and eventually start punching on.
There was also an entire sub plot of Chilli trying to sneak off to punch a few cones that had to be cut for overseas audiences.
Oh my, I need to see if I can find a torrent for the aussie version of the entire show.
I do hope it’s Pat pounding the rum and cokes though, otherwise I have some questions about his and Janelle’s parenting skills.
Yes, you’re right. It was Bandit and.Lucky’s dad.
I had a few rumbo’s myself, and I’m still a little woozy from that drop bear attack a few days ago.
I did end up finding a blu-ray version torrent that’s less censored than the streaming version, but nowhere could I find any version of that episode where Lucky’s Dad and Bandit get properly wasted. Only a 20 second difference in length.
Me very meticulously checking every word to see why this in in shitpost.
The shitpost was that we both wasted our time
yeah some of these aren’t accurate
Verily
You can put ‘very’ before every suggested alternative. What then?
I teach foreign language students and they often write about how their food was “very delicious”, and it always sounds so jarring to me. There are a lot of really strong words that native speakers tend to not use very with.
eg:
very difficult task / very monumental task
very good cooking / very superb cooking
very happy man / very elated manFor some reason intensifiers like so and such don’t have those restrictions:
The task was very/so monumental.
It was very/such superb cooking.
He was very/so elated.Bring ‘fucking’ into it and even native speakers say how fucking delicious the food was.
It’s funny how it suddenly appears to work with “fucking” but “very” is weird.
When very then?
Most of the alternatives feel odd with a very. Eg: very powerful, sure I get your message but it sounds awkward
Some of them feel better than others. Very boiling is kinda weird.
Very powerful works imo.
I am a fan of putting “very” in front of everything in the suggested list.
Very tiny. Very exhausted.
Very good examples!
This post is very interesting.
*Intriguing.
This post is very intriguing.
*captivating.
This post is very captivating.
*mesmerizing.
Very useful
veruseful
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