On 20 October 2017 at 22:33, Felipe Borges <felipe10bor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Running GUI applications as root is hardly discouraged.
The English language can be surprising, so I write this short note to help avoid confusion. 400 years ago, your sentence above would be correct. But the meaning of the word "hardly" has changed over time. In modern language, your sentence above means: running GUI applications as root is discouraged only a small amount. (I suspect that is the opposite of what you wanted to say). Because these days "hardly" means "not very much". If a glass of water is almost empty, we can say: there is hardly any water there. The word "hardly" has lost its original connection to the word "hard". So I would write that sentence as: Running GUI applications as root is severely discouraged. or Running GUI applications as root is strongly discouraged. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list