Re: Phrasing to consider (non-technical) - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Phrasing to consider (non-technical)
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Msg-id 20181121215640.GA6166@momjian.us
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In response to Phrasing to consider (non-technical)  (PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org>)
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 02:50:22PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> 
> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/static/datatype-datetime.html
> Description:
> 
> On the page for Data Types - DateTime, there is this part of a sentence:
> 
> "....so the same time zone names are also recognized by much other
> software."
> 
> The phrase of "much other software" is what caught me.  An optional
> replacement would be: "many other software systems." or "multiple software
> packages."
> 
> "much" has a connotation that doesn't fit here as well as "many" or
> "multiple" would.
> 
> Thanks for the documentation.  It has been very helpful in clarifying some
> things.

I just went with simpler text, patch attached and backpatched.

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