The DIID series (Do It In D)

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Tuesday, 25 January 2022 at 01:15:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/24/2022 4:34 PM, Elronnd wrote:
>> On Monday, 24 January 2022 at 23:33:29 UTC, Walter Bright 
>> wrote:
>>> The phrase "How bad really is the D ecosystem?" only asks a 
>>> question, but people tend to interpret such sentences as "D's 
>>> ecosystem is really bad". What works better is:
>>>
>>> "How good really is the D ecosystem?"
>> 
>> Your suggested phrasing sounds overly trite to me.  I would 
>> maybe go for 'Is the D ecosystem really that bad?'
>
> Again, never write "Is the D ecosystem really that bad?" unless 
> one wants to give the impression that the D ecosystem is bad. 
> Because all the dear reader actually sees is:
>
>     D ecosystem bad

I'll consider fixing this.
I always read "How good really is X?" as "this is bad"
and "How bad really is X?" as "this is good"
probably because for the french the best appreciation you can get 
is "not bad!"