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tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I teach foreign language students and they often write about how their food was “very delicious”, and it always sounds so jarring to me. There are a lot of really strong words that native speakers tend to not use very with.

eg:
very difficult task / very monumental task
very good cooking / very superb cooking
very happy man / very elated man

For some reason intensifiers like so and such don’t have those restrictions:

The task was very/so monumental.
It was very/such superb cooking.
He was very/so elated.

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