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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by andrewla on Friday April 10, 2020 @11:26AM (#22833981)
Mostly a question of euphemism drift (or rhetorical drift, if that's a thing) -- "really" and "very" are former terms that meant "without exaggeration or inaccuracy" but slowly drifted towards a rhetoric use.
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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by rriepe on Friday April 10, 2020 @12:31PM (#22834634)
Interesting.

(That's another one that tends to mean the opposite)

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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by andrewla on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @03:35PM (#22870466)
Wait, was this a burn? Ouch.
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Re:E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall by rriepe on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:24PM (#22871647)
Hah, honestly I think I replied to the wrong thing.
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