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Subject: Re: emacs-30 baaf97ce1a1: ; Fix some ungrammatical uses of "allows to"
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> From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 20:03:54 +0100
> 
> Anyway, it does indeed mark out writing as coming from a non-native user
> of English.  You see it relatively commonly in software contexts,
> probably because lots of programmers are not native English speakers.

In technical texts these uses of "allows" omit "one" or "you", so the
text really says "SOMETHING allows _you_ to do whatever", but omits
"you".  Changing this mechanically to "allows doing" in many cases
makes the text much harder to read, a mouthful, really.