From: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-30 baaf97ce1a1: ; Fix some ungrammatical uses of "allows to"
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 22:07:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871q25afex.fsf@zephyr.silentflame.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86bk19eryz.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 30 Aug 2024 22:22:12 +0300")
Hello,
On Fri 30 Aug 2024 at 10:22pm +03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 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.
It's not always 'one' or 'you'.
The first variable allows distinguishing all three cases.
Here it is the code, not any human, that is to do the distinguishing.
--
Sean Whitton
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-08-30 17:40 emacs-30 baaf97ce1a1: ; Fix some ungrammatical uses of "allows to" Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-30 18:14 ` Alan Mackenzie
2024-08-30 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-30 21:09 ` Sean Whitton
2024-08-30 19:03 ` Sean Whitton
2024-08-30 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-30 21:07 ` Sean Whitton [this message]
2024-08-30 23:22 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-08-31 0:23 ` Po Lu
2024-08-31 6:26 ` Sean Whitton
2024-08-31 6:49 ` Gerd Möllmann
2024-08-30 19:00 ` Sean Whitton
2024-08-30 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-30 21:00 ` Sean Whitton
2024-08-30 21:15 ` Ship Mints
2024-08-30 23:39 ` Mike Kupfer
2024-08-31 6:15 ` Sean Whitton
2024-08-31 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-08-31 14:54 ` Mike Kupfer
2024-08-31 6:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-01 10:20 ` Sean Whitton
2024-09-01 10:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
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