daniel:// stenberg://Mar 2
a detail you probably didn't know: nowhere in any #curl documentation do we use the word "very". It is a banned word enforced by a CI check. This rule encourages us to rewrite and instead use more appropriate words. Makes us write better English.
Show threaddaniel:// stenberg://Mar 3
and now I'm about to drop all uses of "just"... https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20793
docs: stop using the word 'just' by bagder · Pull Request #20793 · curl/curl

It is almost never a good word and almost always a filler that should be avoided.

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Show threadRet

@bagder agree when it is used to imply that something is simple, quick or trivial (when it may not be to all people).

Disagree otherwise tbh, it’s basically a synonym for “only” in most other cases, which is pretty harmless? Maybe I’m not following.

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Show threadJim GardnerMar 3
@ret @bagder I think that’s roughly what people mean. It doesn’t have many appropriate uses in documentation. Elsewhere, it’s fine. “I was just at the shops and x happened”…
Show threadSean BarrettMar 3
@ret @bagder Yeah, in code comments I also found a flag described as encoding whether we "just" did something, meaning it was true on the most recent iteration rather than previously, which is also a legit usage, but got to be rare in documentation.