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• Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The very first thing written by a something called “proofreading services.com” is functionally wrong. That’s a helluva start.

  “exact” and “very accurate” are not the same thing. Not by a long shot.

  “Very accurate” still leaves room for innacuracies while “Exact” does not. So why exactly would I trust a service whose very first sentence is an error?

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• lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  image of text that people with accessibility needs can’t read

  very bad

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I tried THUNDEROUS888 but it didn’t work. Very frustrating.

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• Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hi, as a published writer: There is nothing wrong with very as long as you don’t repeat it needlessly.

  A lot of these guides are very, very stupid.

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• crowbar@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Very UwU

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  • name_NULL111653@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t say “Very UwU,” say “Nyaaaaaaaaa :3”

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• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “silence, brand” meme with grainy starman from Earthbound

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• ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “I never give advice, but there is one thing I wish you would do when you sit down to write news stories, and that is: Never use the word ‘very.’ It is the weakest word in the English language; doesn’t mean anything. If you feel the urge of ‘very’ coming on, just write the word ‘damn’ in the place of ‘very.’ The editor will strike out the word ‘damn,’ and you will have a good sentence.”

  —William Allen White

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• muusemuuse@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is very obnoxious.

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• Allero@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks! That’s actually useful to enrich my speech

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• pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Challenge accepted. I’ll try to avoid that word for as long I possible. I’ll ping you next time I realise I fail.

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think very fast and Swift line up at all. I could describe a car is very fast but I don’t think I would describe it as Swift.

  On a related note why is my voice to text Auto capitalizing the word Swift? Also Auto apparently.

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    High velocity

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  • oo1@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not even the Suzuki Swift?

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  • LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Swift is more to do with agility than speed, I’d say.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Swift makes me think acceleration, and/or short-term speed. I wouldn’t call a marathon record-breaker “swift”.

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• jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t say “very accurate,” say “exact”

  “exact” is a synonym for “very precise,” not “very accurate.”

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The percentage of people among the general population who know the difference is about 2.5356%. I’ll allow it.

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    • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      2.5356%. clever. (But is that accurate?)

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  • pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What could I use then?

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    • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just say accurate?

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    • jsomae@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Depends on the meaning of “accurate” (e.g. an archer, a research paper, a copy…).

      Impeccable; flawless; dead-on; faithful – if I had to choose one, I’d pick “impeccable”

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  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree!

    Accuracy and precision; when I used to shoot archery long ago; measure different things, accuracy is a measure of the spread of your shots, precision is a measure of how close to the middle your shots are.

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• RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apologetic for taking a compelling shit on your porch.

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• Mustakrakish@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Its a fuckin ad

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And I would be thrilled to fucking death to see more ads just like it. Touch my brain lovingly, don’t just fuck it.

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• SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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• 8000gnat@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  v cool thanks op

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• Goretantath@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Verily verily verily verily, life is but a stream~

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• Meltdown@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Better than petite and downy.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      First laugh all day, teared up a bit. Jesus!

      My wife is always, “Your skin is so soft, like a girl!”

      Thanks?

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  • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My penis is very difficult arduous

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  • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I also heard it was obese and kind.

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• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ad, silence, brand

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, so, you can still add “very” in front of all these words, so check-mate! :V

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This reminds me of a teacher I had in elementary school that hated the word “stuff.” It was banned from his classroom and you would lose points if you ever used the word in assignments…

  Not sure why, but that really stuck with me, and I still try to avoid using the word when I can.

  There’s almost always a better word to use.

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  • pseudo@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is about challenging yourself to use a broader vocabulary and not to stuck with black filler or the broadest term that come to mind. These day I try to learn how to recognised tree. So I challenge myself not to use this word any more: I’m seeing an oak or an fir, a coniferious, a blackthorn but not a tree.

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• ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Real, hella, and doubleplus also work

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• mriormro@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t say

  I’ll say whatever the fuck I want however I want to. If you don’t like it, you’re free to leave.

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  • HereIAm@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t have to be so very exasperated about it :( /s

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  • Lekip@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Very free

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    • Huschke@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      One might even say “unrestricted”

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• Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not a guide, it’s a list.

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• duhbasser@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What psychopath would say “that car looks swift!” vs “that car looks very fast”

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  • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just say zoombastic like a normal person.

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• zecg@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is a very shitty (craptastic) advert

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• Susaga@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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• Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Very nice list

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• TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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