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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

okay real honest question: what is the "very" augmentative / replacement for "compelling" then?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And what is the "very" of that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Very perfect, distinct from slightly perfect.

My English teacher would have cut off your balls.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Such a very perfect comment!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Very creative!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Be careful, the knife is keen!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They are actually more dangerous when tedious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Are you grave?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Or how about: " It's fuckin' BUSTLIN' in here"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

But then it wouldn’t be a Cool guide

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Huh. There are adverbs aside from 'litchally'?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

akshually yes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I have a compelling erection, but it is brief 😞

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Damn beat me to it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Rich = lot of money Wealthy = lot of money

What is the difference?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Ok. You know how basketball players make a lot of money? They’re rich. The guy that pays them is wealthy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months 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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

American version -

Super big

Super boring

Super noisy

Super poor

Super creative

Etc etc

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Solid idea, but imperfect execution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thank you partybot very cool!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Image seems to have been deleted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ya ~~very simple~~ basic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That's very cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Very interesting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months 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