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Update faq.md - "is outweighed by" to "outweighs" #206

Closed wyattscarpenter closed 2 months ago

wyattscarpenter commented 2 months ago

I'm not 100% sure if this change is actually correct, because I'm not sure about the actual intent behind the sentence. The next sentence seems to imply the paragraph is critiquing a decision of C as being the wrong decision. But maybe this sentence means to say that despite those flaws this decision was still correct in C; in which case, the original phrasing is correct.

gingerBill commented 2 months ago

I prefer is outweighed by.

wyattscarpenter commented 2 months ago

@gingerBill if you mean my fix was wrong, that's totally understandable, and sorry for wasting your time with the rest of this comment; but if by "prefer" you mean you prefer it merely as a matter of style, then I should point out that "outweighs" means the opposite thing to "is outweighed by", due to switching from the passive to the active voice: