Re: Doc patch "only relevant" -> "relevant only"

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: "Karl O(dot) Pinc" <kop(at)meme(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Doc patch "only relevant" -> "relevant only"
Date: 2012-10-17 13:19:58
Message-ID: 507EB07E.3050409@dunslane.net
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On 10/16/2012 11:24 PM, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As long as I'm sending in trivial fixes
> to the docs here's a bit of wording that's been bugging me.
>
> In a number of places the docs read "only relevant",
> this patch reverses this to read "relevant only".
>
> I believe this reads better because it quickly
> answers the question "is what?" with "is relevant",
> making the sentence less of a strain to read.
> "Only relevant" would be better if you really wanted
> to emphasize the "only", which I don't think is called
> for.
>
> (Sending in such trivial patches makes me feel like
> I'm bikeshedding. Feel free to ignore them without comment.)
>
>

This doesn't appear to correct any ambiguity, nor any grammatical error.
I find these sentences perfectly readable as they are. Not everything in
the docs conforms to my personal style either, but I'm not in favor of
taking this sort of patch which is just a matter of substituting your
stylistic judgment for that for the original author. If we do that we'll
never stop.

cheers

andrew

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