Tom Lane wrote:
>
> More generally, a lot of the PG documentation could use the attention
> of a professional copy editor --- and I'm sad to say that the parts
> contributed by native English speakers aren't necessarily any cleaner
> than the parts contributed by those who are not.
The difference between native English speaker and English writer is that
writer usually does not mix up dye and die ;)
But afaik there is no such language as Englis, so first we would need to
agree on which of the many Englishes the docs will be in.
I guess they are currently in "International" English which is quite
free
about grammar, spelling and punctuation.
I would hate if we all started to write in some more rigid dialect.
I've heard that some of these even make you put the full stop at the end
of a
sentence before closing parenthesiss (like this.)
They claim it is for "typographical aesthetics" ;)
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Hannu