Show HN: Insteadofvery.com

I like very though. It&#x27;s very very veritably vivacious.<p>I can&#x27;t stand people who care about this stuff. The purpose of language is communication. If you understood what was said, the language used did it&#x27;s job. Those alternatives to very are valid and if your intent is precision then I can see why you would use them. But my counter argument is, &quot;very&quot; is understood by a wider audience and is less confusing.<p>The same reasoning applies in programming does it not? Is it not considered good coding practice to use syntax and features that are easily understood by junior devs? Shouldn&#x27;t complex syntax and features be used sparingly where needed?<p>When is superb required over &quot;very nice&quot;?<p>The reality is that language does have rules and for good reason. But grammar nazis use their superior knowledge of those rules to gatekeep random things and use those rules to manipulate others to their advantage.<p>Using rarely used words in a langauge is just as bad as using jargon or rare dialects.<p>If a random 2.0 gpa highschool kid can understand you. Your vocabulary is perfect.

<i>Substitute &#x27;damn&#x27; every time you&#x27;re inclined to write &#x27;very;&#x27; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.</i><p>Mark Twain

What about guidance on <i>which</i> of the terms to use? (An example sentence isn&#x27;t as useful as definition or discussion.)

I like the concept a lot. Was hoping there would be a crowdsourced element to it — a way to suggest our own synomys rather than just relying on the LLM.<p>Oh, and heads up, right now looking up anything with a forward slash (&#x2F;) fails with an Internal Server Error and no output to the end user.

Actually I have seen people using “Very Good” more often than its alternatives.

Right after &quot;very horny&quot;, there&#x27;s the entry for &quot;very hard&quot;.<p>&quot;My dick is onerous&quot; might have been a phrase construct that went through my mind.

Nice site, would you be putting it on GH at some point? I&#x27;m very interested, no, captivated by simple projects like this using FastAPI and want to learn that

That&#x27;s very neat.

Can you make one of these for “super” please – I find how its use has crept into language to be super annoying.

“Instead of very fun use… Lively The concert was very lively.“<p>I mean, if it’s going to suggest using “very” instead of “very” … shrug

it&#x27;s like a very small part of a thesaurus.

“instead of very horny” -&gt; There are four suggestions with “very”

Less is usually more. Just leave them out entirely, thank you <i>very</i> much. &#x2F;s<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;katelee&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;30&#x2F;mark-twain-on-writing-kill-your-adjectives&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.forbes.com&#x2F;sites&#x2F;katelee&#x2F;2012&#x2F;11&#x2F;30&#x2F;mark-twain-o...</a><p>“Substitute &#x27;damn&#x27; every time you&#x27;re inclined to write &#x27;very;&#x27; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”<p>- Mark Twain<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;quotes&#x2F;2913-substitute-damn-every-time-you-re-inclined-to-write-very-your" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goodreads.com&#x2F;quotes&#x2F;2913-substitute-damn-every-...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marktwainproject.org&#x2F;xtf&#x2F;view?docId=letters&#x2F;UCCL01772.xml;style=letter;brand=mtp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.marktwainproject.org&#x2F;xtf&#x2F;view?docId=letters&#x2F;UCCL...</a>