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NAS89@lemmy.world 11 months agoI don’t have a dog in this fight but bleeding edge literally implies that unreliability is to be expected. That’s why it’s bleeding edge and not leading edge.
whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
English is not my native language so I may have used the term wrongly, I meant “bleeding edge” as basically very high end.
Kedly@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Buddy is being pedantic, in casual use most people will use bleeding edge exactly same use case as you are using it.
NAS89@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not being pedantic; I’m not correcting their use of an incorrect word that doesn’t matter. There’s a pretty big distinction between leading edge and bleeding edge, especially when it comes to stated disappointment that a software or program isn’t as stable as expected.
No need to toss insults just to jump to the defense of someone in a pretty simple misunderstanding.
Kedly@lemm.ee 11 months ago
There isnt jack shit difference in the colloquial sense, except for the fact that one word people generally know, and the other people dont. If you were telling this to a native english speaker I wouldnt care, but to an ESL person I feel the need to step in and say “Yeah no, everyone will understand what you mean with the phrasing you chose, the person correcting you is being hyper literal”
NAS89@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No worries; that would be leading edge, which you’re probably correct in your original statement with that in mind.
Bleeding edge in English generally refers to day zero hardware, software, or services, in which mainstream support most likely doesn’t exist and it is generally anticipated that issues will be encountered.
whereBeWaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I see, thanks for the clarification