"Light is making your body later."
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Created an account just to reply to this old thread (which is what I found when googling that phrase).
I've read the whole discussion and I still am not sure what the phrase was supposed to say.
If you need to have more words to express yourself in a way that make sense, then just use more words. Because the current phrase doesn't make sense and looks like broken English, even if maybe it isn't (something that I'm not inclined to agree with just yet).
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artificial light delays the timing of the circadian clock
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It's been years and this absurd message still shows up every time I have the misfortune of clicking the flux icon. I can't fathom why, given that virtually anything would be a better fit.
@TwoCables said in "Light is making your body later.":
It's proper English though. I can assure you of that. When you understand what it's saying, you realize just how perfect the English is here.
@TwoCables said in "Light is making your body later.":
Yes, "Light is making your body later" isn't a common statement in today's world, but it is still absolutely 100% grammatically correct.Yes, a bizarre use of the comparative form of the adjective "late", which tangibly sensible in this context, as in "Continuing, or remaining after the correct, usual, or expected time; delayed" (as per the Free Dictionary which I happen to be fond of), is, indeed, correct. That doesn't mean it's a good fit, or that the average reader's immediate reaction isn't to consider the adverb "later", which greatly hampers the intelligibility of the sentences.
The simple fact that people have been bringing this up as hard to comprehend—that this thread exists, in other words—is enough proof that this unfortunate wording ought to be modified. And given that changing two strings in the source code should certainly be a trivial task, I am baffled it hasn't been done yet.
But just so you don't say I'm a curmudgeon who won't offer a better alternative, here's one. "Light is making you stay up later". You even get to keep the "later" whilst still being completely and fully comprehensible! And for the opposite one, "Light is making you wake up earlier", or whatever the sentence is supposed to mean.
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