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[–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    okay real honest question: what is the "very" augmentative / replacement for "compelling" then?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Apart from that, there's honestly a lot that bugs me about it. For the most part though, these are all depending on the use case and would require you to have a relative mastery of english.

    A couple are...

    Simple and basic can generally be interchanged with each other. There are also times when very simple means something completely different from basic. (eg. chemistry)

    As someone mentioned, "very perfect" wouldn't really be used in the implied sense. It would be more used to convey extreme fragility, in that destruction happens with the slightest problem.

    Another one is that you can be very open about your thoughts/feelings, but you wouldn't necessarily announce them by being transparent.

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  • [+] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Be careful, the knife is keen!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You could just replace "very" with "fucking" and get the same results as all the synonyms.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Huh. There are adverbs aside from 'litchally'?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    I have a compelling erection, but it is brief 😞

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    so you're saying very very boring is tedious...

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Incredibly, unbearably, immeasurably, vastly, amazingly, stupidly, etc etc.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I quite like the word very tho it’s a nice word, short, honest, the kind of word you can rely on.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    There's so much noise in that photo, it's deafening.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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    American version -

    Super big

    Super boring

    Super noisy

    Super poor

    Super creative

    Etc etc

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    “Rich” and “wealthy” are two different things. They’re not interchangeable.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Rich = lot of money Wealthy = lot of money

    What is the difference?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Rich is having lots of money. Wealthy is having a lot of passive income. In practice, the 2 are similar. A rich person can invest, and so become wealthy. A wealthy person is often rich. It's possible to only be 1 however. E.g. Someone with a large property portfolio would be wealthy, but not necessarily rich.

    This is one of the powers of the English language. We have a ridiculous number of pseudonyms. They have similar meanings, but vary subtly. This allows us to express ideas with a lot more granularity than a lot of other languages.

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    Solid idea, but imperfect execution.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Image seems to have been deleted.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Thank you partybot very cool!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I'm just gonna throw this here because the word Lavish was used.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    My headmaster once substituted one of my classes and used it to demonstrate how “get” is a really crap word and you can always replace it with a more descriptive and apt synonym.

    Nowadays I just have to choke down when business people ask me to “action” things.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This must of been very tedious to make... Aww fuck whoops

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    That's very cool.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Very interesting

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Not-that-fun fact, years ago way before any new taxi service, during the reign of a then-popular particular word, I heard someone refer to something as “super uber strong”. Apparently neither intensifier was enough on its own

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