Re: [HACKERS] "May", "can", "might"

2007-02-02 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:39:26PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I would like to clean up our documentation to consistently use these > words. Objections? None here, but if you're going to go to the trouble, you might want to have a look at how others have faced this problem too. In my line of w

Re: [HACKERS] "May", "can", "might"

2007-02-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I have made these adjustments to the documentation. Do people want > > the error message strings also updated? > > I have no problem with that. They seem to be in pretty good shape > already, so the changes should be few. Yea, I see only a few

Re: [HACKERS] "May", "can", "might"

2007-02-01 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Bruce Momjian schrieb: I have made these adjustments to the documentation. Do people want the error message strings also updated? It will probably make the translation easier/clearer in the future, but it does involve some error message wording churn. CVS HEAD only, of course. I still think

Re: [HACKERS] "May", "can", "might"

2007-02-01 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD
> I have made these adjustments to the documentation. Do people want the > error message strings also updated? It will probably make the > translation easier/clearer in the future, but it does involve some error > message wording churn. CVS HEAD only, of course. I think most translations will

Re: [HACKERS] "May", "can", "might"

2007-01-31 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian wrote: > I have made these adjustments to the documentation. Do people want > the error message strings also updated? I have no problem with that. They seem to be in pretty good shape already, so the changes should be few. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~pet

Re: [HACKERS] "May", "can", "might"

2007-01-31 Thread Bruce Momjian
I have made these adjustments to the documentation. Do people want the error message strings also updated? It will probably make the translation easier/clearer in the future, but it does involve some error message wording churn. CVS HEAD only, of course. ---

Re: [HACKERS] "May", "can", "might"

2007-01-30 Thread Sean Utt
- Original Message - From: "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- snip -- I would like to clean up our documentation to consistently use these words. Objections? (Who says were obsessive?) :-) -- more snip -- Did you mean, "Who says we're obsessive?" ;-) Sean ---

Re: [HACKERS] "May", "can", "might"

2007-01-30 Thread Mike Rylander
On 1/30/07, Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Who says were obsessive?) :-) I may not fall into your clever trap... But you certainly can! (sorry...) -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com -

Re: [HACKERS] "May", "can", "might"

2007-01-30 Thread Gregory Stark
"Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Who says were obsessive?) :-) I may not fall into your clever trap... -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading throu

[HACKERS] "May", "can", "might"

2007-01-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways: may - permission, "You may borrow my rake." can - ability, "I can lift that log." might - possibility, "It might rain today." Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often m