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Some clunky writing here: > it isn't totally impossible. > so we can run them without any nonfree software Edit: removed my suggestions
by Maximus9000 7y ago
Some clunky writing here:
> it isn't totally impossible.
> so we can run them without any nonfree software
Edit: removed my suggestions
- midgetjones 7y ago> > it isn't totally impossible. > how about: "It's totally possible" That completely changes the meaning.
- Maximus9000 7y agoAgreed, my suggestion might be off. Either way, he's got some clunky sentences there.
- bobwaycott 7y agoI agree with your second suggestion (although you added an unnecessary that in there), but your first changes the meaning significantly. To my reading, “it isn’t totally impossible” signifies a thing being very to extremely difficult—perhaps close enough to impossible that the difficulty is worth recognizing as potentially insurmountable—though not entirely outside the realm of possibility. “It’s totally possible”, on the other hand, seems to indicate a thing of such negligible difficulty the obstacles are not worth mentioning.
- typon 7y agoYour edits fail to convey the context in which these sentences are written. Sometimes using a double negative conveys information that would be lost otherwise. In this case, the normal response to rms' suggestion would be "that's impossible!", to which he's replying that no, it isn't totally impossible.