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On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 2:25 AM, David Margerison <del...@electrosonics.com.au> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
