From 8d2c35ee1c37b85b786f0da0712646d4708e1d9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jos=C3=A9=20Carlos=20Nieto?= <jose.carlos@menteslibres.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:11:49 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Clarification on ORM word.

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 README.md | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2cb2f070..30543d82 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ See the project page, recipes and user documentation at [upper.io/db][1].
 
 ## Is this an ORM?
 
-`upper.io/db` is not an ORM, but you may not need one at all:
+`upper.io/db` is not an ORM in the sense that it does not tell you how to
+design your software or how to validate your data, instead it only focuses on
+being a tool that deals with common operations on different databases:
 
 ```go
 // This code works the same for all supported databases.
@@ -19,6 +21,9 @@ res = col.Find(db.Cond{"name": "Max"}).Limit(10).Sort("-last_name")
 err = res.All(&people)
 ```
 
+In strict sense `upper.io/db` could be considered a really basic non-magical
+ORM that rather stays out of the way.
+
 ## Supported databases
 
 `upper.io/db` attempts to provide full compatiblity for [CRUD][2] operations
-- 
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