Huh, weird. I do notice that I don’t like the word “really” because it is super ambiguous between being a general emphasis “this is really difficult” or being a synonym to “actually”, i.e. in “do you really mean this?”. The first usage feels much more common to me, i.e. in more than 80% of the sentences I could come up with the word “really” in it while I was writing the comment, I used it as general emphasis, and not as a synonym to “actually”.
Huh, weird. I do notice that I don’t like the word “really” because it is super ambiguous between being a general emphasis “this is really difficult” or being a synonym to “actually”, i.e. in “do you really mean this?”. The first usage feels much more common to me, i.e. in more than 80% of the sentences I could come up with the word “really” in it while I was writing the comment, I used it as general emphasis, and not as a synonym to “actually”.