Обсуждение: pgsql: In docs, change a few cases of "not important" to "unimportant".
In docs, change a few cases of "not important" to "unimportant". Branch ------ master Details ------- http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7c97f6a0cb1692180699694c287c2a5965d10683 Modified Files -------------- doc/src/sgml/advanced.sgml | 4 ++-- doc/src/sgml/ltree.sgml | 2 +- doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml | 2 +- doc/src/sgml/tablefunc.sgml | 2 +- 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Re: pgsql: In docs, change a few cases of "not important" to "unimportant".
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Heikki Linnakangas
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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. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:42:45PM +0300, 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. Really? All of them? I only did a few. Some were better as "not important" and I left those. Let me know. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +
Re: pgsql: In docs, change a few cases of "not important" to "unimportant".
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Heikki Linnakangas
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On 16.08.2012 17:49, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:42:45PM +0300, 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. > > Really? All of them? Yes.. Perhaps "not important" just feels better to me in general than "unimportant". -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:19:39PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > On 16.08.2012 17:49, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:42:45PM +0300, 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. > > > >Really? All of them? > > Yes.. Perhaps "not important" just feels better to me in general > than "unimportant". OK, reverted. Sorry. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +
On 08/16/2012 11:19 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > On 16.08.2012 17:49, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:42:45PM +0300, 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. >> >> Really? All of them? > > Yes.. Perhaps "not important" just feels better to me in general than > "unimportant". > I agree that none of these looks like an improvement. A couple look like 50-50 choices, but it doesn't look to me like "not important" is clearly worse in any of them. cheers andrew
Re: pgsql: In docs, change a few cases of "not important" to "unimportant".
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"Kevin Grittner"
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.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
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 10:38:09AM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.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". OK, thanks for the feedback. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +