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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-30 baaf97ce1a1: ; Fix some ungrammatical uses of "allows to"
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 08:23:09 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878qwdv8uq.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5gtal45.fsf@zephyr.silentflame.com> (Sean Whitton's message of "Fri, 30 Aug 2024 20:03:54 +0100")

Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:

> 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.

AFAIK this construct is taught in the German education system, which
probably gives rise to the bulk of its users.  Not to imply that it
isn't ungrammatical.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-08-31  0:23 UTC|newest]

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
2024-08-30 23:22       ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-08-31  0:23     ` Po Lu [this message]
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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