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Use of the word "very"

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by ColbertNation, Aug 11, 2007.

  1. TyWebb

    TyWebb Well-Known Member

    Currently, this is really a pretty good thread now located very close to the SportsJournalists.com eatery.
     
  2. Chi City 81

    Chi City 81 Guest

    I'd really like to thank the creators of this thread for looking ahead and having the foresight to begin this extremely historic discussion of new ideas.
     
  3. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

  4. TwoGloves

    TwoGloves Well-Known Member

    I'm sure you're very welcome.
     
  5. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    I'll tell you some useless words: "just" and "basically." Terrible. Should be eliminated from the English language. If you told every athlete that they could never start a sentence with: "Basically, we just have to blah, blah, blah..." they'd never know how to start talking.

    But if I had to pick one word to ban, it would be the word "just." A throwaway word that means nothing.
     
  6. TyWebb

    TyWebb Well-Known Member

    Basically, this is currently a really pretty good thread that is located in the SportsJournalists.com eatery that is just very awesome.
     
  7. spaceman

    spaceman Active Member

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    Interesting.
     
  8. SixToe

    SixToe Well-Known Member

    Please kill "very" like a rat at an Anaheim hot dog stand.

    A stupid TV-radio weather phrase that needs to die is "(blank) hours," as in "Temperatures will drop into the upper 50s for the overnight hours and rise to the 80s during the afternoon hours."

    WTF? Just say "afternoon" or "Overnight."



    Another word worthy of departure is "that."

    He said that she was very pretty.

    He said she was pretty.


    She said that she would have to be very drunk to sleep with him.

    She said she would have to be very incredibly drunk to sleep with him.
     
  9. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Very Artefully done, basically.
     
  10. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    "That" and "very" are pet peeves.

    As are most adverbs.
     
  11. imjustagirl2

    imjustagirl2 New Member

    Is this the first annual thread about the use of the word very?
     
  12. TyWebb

    TyWebb Well-Known Member

    Very much so.
     
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