Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: management-style: Reword "had better known the details" phrase

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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 :)

We can tweak it, but I'd rather not change the meaning, and, more to the
point, that document needs significant work rather than low-level
tweaking.

jon




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