Add pattern #34: casual intensifiers and dismissive amplifiers#155
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Proposed in #153.
One tell the current patterns miss: casual intensifiers (dead simple, blazingly fast, painfully slow) and belittling templates (just a dumb X, a glorified X) that manufacture confidence in prose meant to be neutral. #7 covers flavor vocabulary, #31 cadence, #4 promotional adjectives, none of them this class.
The rule scales by register: one intensifier already breaks neutral or reference prose, while casual and creative-work writing tolerate a couple. It carves out idioms, terms of art, manner adverbs, and substantiated claims, so "dead letter queue" and "painfully shy" stay. Kept terse to match the house patterns.
Updates the README pattern table and count, and bumps the version to 2.9.0.