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Regarding your [1], I think people reach for "very" for two different reasons: because they habitually "overseason" their sentences, adding intensifiers when th
by djur 4y ago
Regarding your [1], I think people reach for "very" for two different reasons: because they habitually "overseason" their sentences, adding intensifiers when the underlying language is already intense, or because they "underseason" them with limp adjectives that they're trying to pump up. The former people just need to build their confidence to drop "very". The latter need something like this site to help learn better adjectives.
- aeturnum 4y agoI think my point is that these adjectives are not "better" - they are different. They mean different things, which you might also mean, but aren't good "drop in" replacements.