On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 07:05:27AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > >> But neither of those say the same thing. Read "had better know" as > >> "really should know" and you get a lot closer. I guess I didn't realize > >> that it was such a strange construction. > > > > I bet very few non-native English speaker developers would understand it > > like that. > > Even though a non-native developer wrote it :) :-) Well, I suppose that non-natives raising kids in US would use this a lot, as, from the examples I saw about such usage, it sounds to me exactly the kind of language that parents would say a lot to their sibilings ;-) > We can tweak it, but I'd rather not change the meaning, Sure. > and, more to the > point, that document needs significant work rather than low-level > tweaking. Fully agreed. Seeking it at historic tree, the original text was written on 2004. Surely management style changed a little bit over all those years ;-) Thanks, Mauro
