From dbc61a5038cacc516a49d00a59a669e2617cff51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 19:19:06 -0700
Subject: Language cleanups in the documentation.

Mostly this is removal of the smart quotes, which were
over-used, and misused, and could have been mistaken to
be pejorative.  A few other minor nits were fixed while here.
---
 docs/man/nng_thread_create.3supp.adoc | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

(limited to 'docs/man/nng_thread_create.3supp.adoc')

diff --git a/docs/man/nng_thread_create.3supp.adoc b/docs/man/nng_thread_create.3supp.adoc
index 0822a963..129bddea 100644
--- a/docs/man/nng_thread_create.3supp.adoc
+++ b/docs/man/nng_thread_create.3supp.adoc
@@ -35,19 +35,19 @@ A pointer to the thread object is returned in _thrp_.
 The intention of this program is to facilitate writing parallel programs.
 Threads created by this program will be based upon the underlying
 threading mechanism of the system that _NNG_ is running on.
-This may include use of so-called "`green threads`" or coroutines.
+This may include use of coroutines.
 
 Using threads created by this function can make it easy to write
 programs that use simple sequential execution, using functions in the
-_NNG_ suite that would otherwise normally "`block`".
+_NNG_ suite that would otherwise normally wait synchronously for completion.
 
 When the thread is no longer needed, the
 xref:nng_thread_destroy.3supp.adoc[`nng_thread_destroy()`]
 function should be used to reap it.
 (This function will block waiting for _func_ to return.)
 
-IMPORTANT: Thread objects created by this function may not be "`real`"
-threads capable of performing blocking I/O operations using normal blocking
+IMPORTANT: Thread objects created by this function may not be real system
+level threads capable of performing blocking I/O operations using normal blocking
 system calls.
 If use of blocking system calls is required (not including APIs provided
 by the _NNG_ library itself of course), then real OS-specific threads
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