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Looks like style to me. Like saying "their actions weren't exemplary" when you really mean "their actions were bad"; maybe a British-English style? When one u
by pbhjpbhj 3y ago
Looks like style to me.
Like saying "their actions weren't exemplary" when you really mean "their actions were bad"; maybe a British-English style?
When one uses this format, like in the phrase "[something] wasn't ideal" (eg 'I crashed my car and missed my own wedding, which wasn't ideal') the claim to less-than-perfection is really an implicit statement that the object/situation was the opposite of perfection.
- HPsquared 3y agoIt's deeper than style. Presumably the new maintainer took some rather bold actions which would indeed suggest they had a high degree of confidence themselves, confidence in their own actions. But those actions did not inspire confidence in the product, among the user base.
- shkkmo 3y agoSaying the new maintainer did not inspire confidence is an understatement. (Since the new maintainer destroyed the trust in the project.) Saying that the new maintainer did not exude confidence is a completely different meaning.