Re: No protocol specified error

[Felipe Borges <felipe10borges gmail com>]

whatever man

On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 2:25 AM, David Margerison
<deltam electrosonics com au> wrote:
> On 20 October 2017 at 22:33, Felipe Borges <felipe10borges gmail com> wrote:
> > Running GUI applications as root is hardly discouraged.
>
> The English language can be surprising, so I write this short note to help
> avoid confusion.
>
> 400 years ago, your sentence above would be correct. But the meaning
> of the word "hardly" has changed over time.
>
> In modern language, your sentence above means: running GUI applications
> as root is discouraged only a small amount.
>
> (I suspect that is the opposite of what you wanted to say).
>
> Because these days "hardly" means "not very much".
>
> If a glass of water is almost empty, we can say: there is hardly any
> water there.
>
> The word "hardly" has lost its original connection to the word "hard".
>
> So I would write that sentence as:
>   Running GUI applications as root is severely discouraged.
> or
>   Running GUI applications as root is strongly discouraged.
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