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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And what is the "very" of that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Be careful, the knife is keen!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They are actually more dangerous when tedious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Are you grave?

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

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

[–] Drewelite 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

But then it wouldn’t be a Cool guide

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Huh. There are adverbs aside from 'litchally'?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

akshually yes

[–] Klnsfw 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 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 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Rich = lot of money Wealthy = lot of money

What is the difference?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 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] 2 points 10 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's the thing I find hard in English that one word has so many meaning. also I literally don't understand English curse words. I mean I can understand that it's a curse word but can't exactly get what it means. I don't know the difference between "f off", "f over", "f up" etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

If you want one to truly make you wimper, look up the poem "the chaos". 😈

The f word is also stupidly flexible for a single word. It can basically be used in any place in a sentence. "F*** you, you FING Fwit is a clear concise sentence in practical English.

It also doesn't help that the language gets thoroughly abused. "Literally " meaning both literally and figuratively is one of the more egregious misuses.

As for the question.

"F off" means "go away".

"Fed over" means you got scammed, taken advantage of, abused, or did really badly. Basically the wrong end of a bad situation. E.g. "Mark quit his job without notice, I got completely fed over doing his work, along with mine."

"Fed up" means you made a mistake (generally a big one). E.g. "I fed up today. I accidentally knocked over a display of cans at work. It took me hours to restack them."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Damn beat me to it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

American version -

Super big

Super boring

Super noisy

Super poor

Super creative

Etc etc

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Solid idea, but imperfect execution.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

That's very cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Image seems to have been deleted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Thank you partybot very cool!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ya ~~very simple~~ basic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Very interesting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 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