| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>, pgsql-docs <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Various documentation typo/grammar fixes |
| Date: | 2014-09-02 21:30:37 |
| Message-ID: | 20140902213037.GD14037@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org |
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Kevin Grittner wrote:
> In patch 0003- I agree that the change to "exactly the same" reads
> better. I'm torn on changing the hyphens to spaces. I probably
> wouldn't change them, but I wouldn't squawk if others preferred to
> do so.
Apparently adverb hyphenation discussion plagues the web. One
reasonably-serious page I found in a very quick search is
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/adverbs-and-hyphens/
which cites the Chicago Manual of Style, among others.
There are lots of places in our docs that use hyphens after the "-ly"
suffix, so I think patch 3 is either too short because it should change
more of them, or too long because we should leave this alone.
--
Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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