Re:_It_better_be,_or_else_…
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Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2022 23:39:05 UTC
On 08/10/2022 21:41, Jack Downes wrote: > > Yeah, it's just someone where English isn't their first language > writing something which may be more aptly put as: > > "It is more configurable, to be easily used with other file systems." > Thanks. PR (pull request) drafted: <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-quarterly/pull/525> > On 10/8/22 09:50, Graham Perrin wrote: >> <https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-quarterly/blame/main/2022q3/pjdfstest.adoc#L15> >> >> >> >*Moreconfigurable,soitbetterbeusedwithotherfilesystems. >> >> Please, can anyone suggest a subtle improvement to this bullet point? >> >> Maybe it's a British perception. The phrase "it better be" can have a >> threatening undertone. Like, "Do it, or else …" >> Incidentally, for those of you who wondered WTH happened to the white space in the quoted text: Mozilla bug 1794279 - text/plain alternative to text/html: loss of white space from text copied from a highlighted line in a GitHub blame page <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1794279>