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YSK - a very comprehensive guide on how to avoid "very"

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Submitted ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Trex202@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨youshouldknow@lemmy.world⁩

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  • Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Very nice list

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    don’t say “very accurate”; say “exact”

    First line of this infographic is already deeply misleading. It’s the equivalent of:

    don’t say “very good”; say “perfect”

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    • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      0.01 mm off is very accurate.

      0.0 mm off is exact.

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    • whereisk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      “Amiable” is not “very friendly” - complete nonsense.

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    • Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But ChatGPT helped me write this in only 30.minutes, and it’s exact.

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      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The SVG cat with the Peter Griffin ballsack chin told me.

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  • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Alternatively, instead of using the “very” prefix, you can use the “as fuck” suffix. Check it out: Noisy as fuck. Tasty as fuck. Important as fuck. If you really want to underline your point though, combine them. For example, when you want to express the gravity of the situation or something, say “This situation is very grave as fuck!”. See what I mean? Now that’s what I call very eloquent as fuck prose, shit that’ll suck the air out of the room for sure.

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    • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m very sick - I am bedridden. I’m sick as fuck - I am amazing.

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  • PillowTalk420@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Instead of “it hurt very much” you can say “it hurt a fuckton.”

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  • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Susaga@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Who says “very frightened”? They just say “terrified”, which is surprisingly NOT what the infographic recommends! And “very perfect” is just nonsense. So is “very well-to-do”, which feels like they worked backwards instead of figuring out what “very wealthy” would be.

    These guys need to proofread their own work, I guess.

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  • Bort@hilariouschaos.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Very pretentious

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    • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Instead of very pretentious, try using chi-chi.

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  • turdburglar@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    that’s a very good list.

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    • troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Very very

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  • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you see this brief girl with the ashen face and the constricting pants that only covered tiny of her butt? That top had a profound cutout and looked slackon her. I’m apologetic you didn’t see her. She looked like she carried leaden handbag though.

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  • parpol@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or just use “very” so everyone understands.

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  • considerealization@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    These kinds of prescriptive gimmicks are very exasperating, imo.

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  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I very much, very dislike, this post, because I very much prefer to be inclusive and use very basic language as much as possible to ensure that the very very very uneducated people can understand, with very good accuracy, the words that I utter.

    Perhaps, that’s why I’m a very very very terrible writer 😅

    But seriously tho, unless you are writing a novel, just use simple language for everyday speech. No need to look up a thesaurus for every post you make. Or for everytime someone use a fancy word. 😉

    But even with novels, in dialogues, you cant be using fancy words all the time when characters talk. Most people don’t talk like that, and writing characters that talk unrealistically is so weird.

    Like: “I went to the deafening party last night, it was so excrutiating. I prefer the serene museum because I enjoy the archaic stuff they have on display, it’s very lavish.”

    Like, who talks like that? 🤣

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is an ad for a proofreading service, so nominally it’s meant for you to use in formal writing. Moreover, only a small proportion of these words are “fancy”.

      That said, a thesaurus is best used for remembering words you already know, i.e. not this. Careful use of a thesaurus to find new words provided you research them first – e.g. look them up on Wiktionary (bang !wt on DuckDuckGo) to see example sentences, etymologies, pronunciations, possible other meanings, usage context (e.g. if it’s field-specific jargon), whether it’s appropriate (e.g. slang, archaic), etc. – can work, but if you’re already writing something, just stick to what you know unless it’s dire. You should make an effort to learn words over time as they come up in appropriate contexts rather than memorizing them replacements for other words; this infographic offers a shortcut that’s probably harder and less accurate than actually learning.

      A one-night stand with a word you found in the thesaurus is going to alienate people who don’t know what it means and probably make you look like a jackass to those who do.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’d do one to help people say anything instead of “literally”, but it would just be

    Literally -- just use other words

    …and that’s it

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  • BC_viper@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No

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  • twice_hatch@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I only use the ten hundred words that people use the most

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    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      That’s all you need, that’s what they used to make the up goer five.

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  • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That looks like a list of words to use instead of ‘very <something>’, not instead of ‘very’. I think people are going to be confused by statements like ‘the bill is exact accurate’.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Very nice!

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    • Balthazar@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I thought it was very good and very helpful.

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  • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But I want to use a modifier for the added emphasis

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    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just do what Josh Nichols does.

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  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you just read the right side, the last word sounds like a noun.

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  • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Personally I’m partial to replacing very x for more x¹ than a very x thing in a pot.

    I’m fairly certain I got it from Blackadder, but I can’t recall the episode.

    1.– Or xer, where appropriate.

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  • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Funny enough, a large chunk of replacement words come from Latin

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Blurry. But yes… Comprehensive.

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  • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you see this **brief** girl with the **ashen** face and the **constricting** pants that only covered **tiny** of her butt? That top had a **profound** cutout and looked **slack** on her. I’m **apologetic** you didn’t see her. She looked like she carried **leaden** handbag though.

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  • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Very well! Thanks for this very captivating list of very much every replacement of the word very.

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