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Can you translate the American for me? “Wide variance”, does that they’re being assholes?
by skrebbel 20d ago
Can you translate the American for me? “Wide variance”, does that they’re being assholes?
- afavour 20d agoWell a little translation would be that some are very kind, some are total assholes, and everything in between. But your reading is probably more accurate.
- strken 20d agoI think the literal interpretation is correct here. It's a way of saying "you, dear reader who runs this combination of things, might be very kind, but some of your compatriots will be unusually unkind and will turn up in my issue tracker and on my socials to complain".
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- skrebbel 20d agoThanks!
- st_goliath 20d ago> Can you translate the American for me? I'd say "wide variance in the level of kindness" is a rather British way to describe some of the opinions that have been voiced.
- cowsandmilk 20d ago100%, author lives in Canada and the phrasing has the British heritage of Canadian English.
- graemep 20d agoSounds rather like a statistician's way of saying it.