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Did you look at the site? It's not suggestions for replacing the word 'very' with an alternative word, it's suggestions for replacing the word after 'very' with
by Nition 2y ago
Did you look at the site? It's not suggestions for replacing the word 'very' with an alternative word, it's suggestions for replacing the word after 'very' with a more intense synonym, so that 'very' can be removed.
- aspenmayer 2y agoI did, it was well done. I’d rather use the dictionary/thesaurus functionality on my OS/software or a dedicated site for that, though. I don’t really like sites like this because they don’t seem authoritative to me, and I don’t really know who runs them or their motives. Did you read my links? Mark Twain isn’t talking only about the word “very” either. > I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English—it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them—then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.
- Nition 2y agoSorry, I misread your comment then. I thought you may have interpreted the site as giving suggestions to replace the word 'very' itself (e.g. 'extremely', 'hugely'...) and were suggesting it's better to remove it entirely.
- 4m1rk 2y agoI'm the author and I agree with you relying on more authoritative sources when it comes to proper writing. I enjoy coding, pulled this from my list of stupid ideas and implemented it for fun. But apart form that, I sometimes really have difficulty finding some synonyms (English is not my first language). For example, it's hard to find another word for "very red"! So I usually end up asking ChatGPT.
- aspenmayer 2y agoI appreciate that you made it, and I have heard good things from other language learners using LLMs. I think it’s awesome that you made the site! I’m mostly just very particular about my workflow and don’t like to rely on tooling to write. I realize that I may be privileged as a native English speaker also. Please don’t interpret my comments disparagingly, because they say more about my particular use case and quirks than they do about anything you have done here.
- 4m1rk 2y agoNo worries, I appreciate your feedback. I would love to turn off the tools and rely on my brain for writing, but the fear of missing something always catches me.
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- aspenmayer 2y agoWhat do you plan to do with the site going forward? It’s a catchy domain name and the execution is pretty simple and straightforward. Maybe you could add a blog for words and substitutions you’ve used, and have a little callout on those words’ pages saying they were featured on blogpost #n: [post title] or something. If you wanted to make an app you probably could add some kind of social features and allow people to make word pairs and vote on them, make some kind of front page showing popular new pairs and even popular word pairs in different languages for language learners? Just throwing some ideas out there.
- 4m1rk 2y agoNever thought it would get any attention :D Not sure what to do with it but I love your ideas. I guess one of the first things is to add crowdsourcing as someone else also mentioned. Though I'm about to get a new client so less time for these projects :(