How do you feel about people who describe things as "very very very" as opposed to just "very?"?

I really, really couldn’t care less.

It seems like excessive emphasis to me, but I will admit to doing that sometimes. The multiple “very” use might happen if the speaker is really really really excited about the subject.

I never hear that because, here in Boston 3 verys = 1 wicked.

eg. “It’s wicked hot outside.”

Verbose. Talkative. People who are hard to stop when they start talking. Or perhaps to indicate the relative degree (higher or lower) as compared to our considered standard levels.

I think it’s obnoxious if they use three “very’s” every time. But if they’re extra excited, I don’t mind if they emphasize how very excited they are, by adding a few extra very’s.

It varies.

I don’t do that, but I must admit I over use exclamation marks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder if there is a 12 step group for the likes of me???????????? uh oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@rooeytoo, I hate it when people let go of the shift key too soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 :P

@AshLeigh

What do you find objectionable about people doing that??////////// ;-)

I very, very, very much don’t care,

It’s a bit strange for me, but whatever, brah.

I don’t care for it, but not enough to engage in an argument.

One of the best bosses I had taught me to look back through my writing and rid it of superlatives. A good lesson, but one I’ve yet to master!

@rooeytoo There is such a 12 Step Group—On and On Anon . . .

By the way, @jca, my boss would have said that even one “very” is too many in both your examples.

Very hot is not hotter than hot, any more than very, very hot is hotter than hot.

I feel they are somewhere between the “I could care less” and “ain’t got nothing” bunch, but not as far as the “it literally annoyed me” peeps.

@GoldieAV16 I feel your boss is mistaken. Being from Michigan as I am, I consider 75 degrees as “hot” outside. I would consider the mid 80’s as “very hot”, and when it gets over 90 degrees, (which it does here) I consider staying the hell inside with the AC all the way up and NOT coming out. That translates as; “Too fuckin’ hot to go out there.”

“Too fuckin’ hot to go out there.” <—This one my boss would have loved!

They’re very, very, very exaggerated! Very!

I find it rather bothersome.
If there’s need for that many they may as well use the word “extremely” or something like that.

I feel fine.

I usually am thinking ”There’s a thesaurus for that!”

@GoldieAV16 Yeah. Fuck is all the emphasis I need. Not that I really care if people say very very very; it’s a form of emphasis, like many others.

This reminds me of a triple dog dare from A Christmas Store.

One very is understandable.

Two is serious,

Three is the max.

I’m OK with it. Sometimes it’s very appropriate, like with Our House

People aren’t used to using most of the exceptionally, remarkable, ultra superlative words in the English language.

If it’s a habit of a person’s it could get annoying. I say it on occasion to really emphasize. Like, “Really, really, REALLY emphasize.”

If something needs many very’s to emphasize it then it’s probably worth emphasizing and important! So I don’t mind.

In as effort to eschew obfuscation I urge people to avoid redundancy. When they don’t I really really really get very annoyed.

Didn’t you already say that ^^^ @Dr_Lawrence? :)

If someone did it all the time, I’d probably get really, really annoyed.
Every once in a while, for emphasis ^^, it wouldn’t bother me very much.

I don’t care for it.

It’s not something I’ve ever given much thought too so it can’t bother me much at all.