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From: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
To: Kevin Grittner <[email protected]>
Cc: Marti Raudsepp <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Various documentation typo/grammar fixes
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:30:37 -0400
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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.

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Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services


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