| From: | "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
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| To: | "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>,<pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | <pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: In docs, change a few cases of "not important" to "unimportant". |
| Date: | 2012-08-16 15:38:09 |
| Message-ID: | 502CCD9102000025000497A2@gw.wicourts.gov |
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> On 16.08.2012 17:49, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>> On 16.08.2012 17:36, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>>> In docs, change a few cases of "not important" to
>>>> "unimportant".
>>>
>>> FWIW, I don't think these changes were an improvement. I find
>>> "not important" more readable in those sentences.
+1
>> Really? All of them?
>
> Yes.. Perhaps "not important" just feels better to me in general
> than "unimportant".
Yeah, it's probably subjective, but for me "unimportant" has
negative, dismissive overtones, while "not important" does not.
Sort of like the way "unpleasant" has a different meaning than "not
pleasant".
-Kevin
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