Re: pgsql: Fix a bunch of bad grammar in the docs:"<link>, which see for

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Fix a bunch of bad grammar in the docs:"<link>, which see for
Date: 2007-05-16 20:20:58
Message-ID: 464B67AA.6040509@postgresql.org
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-16-05 at 20:49 +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
>> "which see" is an unusual formulation but it's actually pretty standard. You
>> see it a lot in older texts.
>
> Interesting, I've never run across it before. It certainly sounds
> awkward to me, but I can revert the change if people would like.

I've never seen it before, and it certainly sounds wrong to my ears.
Greg would probably argue that I can't string two sentences together
myself though, so who am I to comment? :-)

Regards, Dave

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