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I'm having a hard time thinking up an alternative choice of words that is similarly clear and concise.

I also think that the phrase "too X" is polysemous. Depending on how it's used, it may imply a notion of blame. But it can also just be a way of describing an incompatibility. "This clearance is too low for that truck" and "This truck is too tall for that clearance" are entirely equivalent statements, IMO. Neither implies that the truck or the bridge is wrong, just that the driver would be wrong to try and drive under it.

Even further out there, when describing a timing-based bug that isn't known to be 100% deterministic as, "If X is happens too quickly after Y, Z might happen" seems to me like it's just a much more straightforward way of saying, "If X happens within some unspecified interval after Y, then Z might happen." Nine syllables shorter, same meaning.



>I'm having a hard time thinking up an alternative choice of words that is similarly clear and concise.

There's "beyond a certain speed", but still something of a mouthful.




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