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unsafe-deep-dive: remove weasel words#3044

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This PR removes imprecise language ('weasel words') to align with the new precision guidelines in #3029.


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Sorry @mgeisler, I'm not sure this is an improvement. For example, "many" is replaced with "several", why is that better?

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Sorry @mgeisler, I'm not sure this is an improvement. For example, "many" is replaced with "several", why is that better?

As you know, I'm not a native speaker... 😄 the reasoning seems to be that "several" is considered a little more precise than "many":

many: consisting of or amounting to a large but indefinite number

several: an indefinite number more than two and fewer than many

So I guess we should use "many" when the number of cases/examples/... is so many that nobody will want to count them? And use "several" when there are so few cases/examples/... shown that one can count them on roughly two hands?

Now, I have no problem with us not wanting to make such a subtle change. I would not have come up with this myself from looking at the English text!

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