[tptacek]

Yeah, the list of alternates doesn't do much for me, but the notion of doing an edit pass looking for "very" so I can spot bad sentences does sound useful.

[Zikes]

Sounds like something that could be integrated into that Hemingway [1] tool that was posted here a few days ago.

Edit: It looks like the tool already marks "very" for omission.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7223969