Learn English – do like vs very like

Thr Jamaican use of "well" (meaning very), is starting to be used by lots more young British, (mostly Londoners). But don't use the expression if you don't want to be ridiculed like the adults in the TV series, Absolutely Fabulous. You'd need to be young, British or Caribbean, extremely cool and know more Rastafarian/London street-talk, and use the right accent before you speak like this:

In sahf London, you may well hear someone say: "She's well fit."

This would not refer to her state of health.

from http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio4/html/NF2766781?thread=6898274

[FWIW, "fit" means attractive, sexy]

OTOH,

"Your shot was well long of the hole." "He fell well short of his goals." "She's a well fed woman."

are all used in Standard English.

Try interpreting the grammar in the sentence like this:

I noticed that read( ) returns –1 when the end of the file has been reached, but I noticed that it does not have a special return value for a file error. Why not? I know that the repetition of 'that' in the original sentence doesn't sound very convincing but it's unavoidable in the case where the author wants to specify explicitly that he noticed this as well as that.

Let's take a look at a simpler example: 'I noticed that he did his maths homework but didn't do his physics homework.'

This sentence follows the pattern: ' I noticed that he did this but didn't do that.' Here, we can very comfortably say that 'I noticed that he' is for both the phrases, 'did this' and 'didn't do that'. That's because the sentence is short. Probably, the author thought that in the long sentence that he is framing, people will be left with the notion that 'he noticed this but not that' or that he noticed only the (first part of the sentence). By adding is very strange since similar functions in other programming languages do you aren't making the sentence look better because that extension is disturbing the 'noticed that this is ...but (noticed) that this isn't' structure. Hope that helps!