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Re:Replace the “Very” in Your Sentence by zeroxp on Friday October 14, 2022 @07:24AM (#33202083)
When you say very different, you could have just said skittish. "It's skittish from what you intended". Isn't that much better?
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Re:Replace the “Very” in Your Sentence by johnpublic on Friday October 14, 2022 @07:48AM (#33202278)
actually, the website says "very different = distinct". So "it's distinct from what you intended."

Which I actually prefer.

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Re:Replace the “Very” in Your Sentence by denton-scratch on Friday October 14, 2022 @08:26AM (#33202582)
Not the same. "Distinct from X" means that it can be distinguished from X; "very different from X" means that it's hard to mistake it for X.
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