| From: | Dan Langille <dan(at)langille(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, josh(at)bitbuckets(dot)com, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Draft Seven |
| Date: | 2004-09-10 14:55:26 |
| Message-ID: | 20040910105458.N67052@xeon.unixathome.org |
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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> > josh(at)bitbuckets(dot)com wrote:
> >> PostgreSQL 8.0 contains many new features that make the database the
> >> strongest contender against the likes of Oracle and DB2. Many
> >> companies, such as Fujitsu, Afilias, RedHat, the Command Prompt
> >> consultancy, and SRA, who view PostgreSQL as a strategic part of
> >> their overall I.T. plan, have sponsored development of the new
> >> features, which include:
> >
> > The companies should be listed in parallel grammatical form and should
> > be spelled correctly:
> >
> > "such as Fujitsu, Afilias, Red Hat, Command Prompt, and SRA"
>
> Stupid question here ... but *what* is parallel grammatical form?
I started to compose the same question, but then googled:
http://gsmweb.udallas.edu/iep/immweb/gram_parallel.html
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