| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | kcolagio(at)gmail(dot)com, pgsql-docs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Phrasing to consider (non-technical) |
| Date: | 2018-11-21 21:56:40 |
| Message-ID: | 20181121215640.GA6166@momjian.us |
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 02:50:22PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
>
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/static/datatype-datetime.html
> Description:
>
> On the page for Data Types - DateTime, there is this part of a sentence:
>
> "....so the same time zone names are also recognized by much other
> software."
>
> The phrase of "much other software" is what caught me. An optional
> replacement would be: "many other software systems." or "multiple software
> packages."
>
> "much" has a connotation that doesn't fit here as well as "many" or
> "multiple" would.
>
> Thanks for the documentation. It has been very helpful in clarifying some
> things.
I just went with simpler text, patch attached and backpatched.
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