From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marcin Borkowski Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: To non-native English writers: expunging the solecism "This allows to do something." Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:20:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87egd6d3gm.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <20160124210602.GA7711@acm.fritz.box> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453674072 9166 80.91.229.3 (24 Jan 2016 22:21:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 22:21:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 24 23:21:03 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aNT1r-0006en-8O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:21:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33560 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNT1q-0005Zw-IL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:21:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43485) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNT1e-0005Zf-B5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:20:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNT1b-0007h9-3G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:20:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([2a01:5e00:2:52::8]:40943) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNT1a-0007gi-Rn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 17:20:47 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C5C8F2017; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:20:44 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mail.mojserwer.eu Original-Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.mojserwer.eu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Yuz9VPNqNzvo; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:20:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (unknown [109.232.24.28]) by mail.mojserwer.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 888BC8F2016; Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:20:41 +0100 (CET) User-agent: mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 25.1.50.1 In-reply-to: <20160124210602.GA7711@acm.fritz.box> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2a01:5e00:2:52::8 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:198730 Archived-At: On 2016-01-24, at 22:06, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > The same considerations also apply to "permit", "enable", and "prevent" > (although the preposition after "prevent" is always "from", never "to"). > > I have done my best to expunge these solecisms from our source and > documentation files (including NEWS). PLEASE take care to avoid adding > any new ones! Thank you for writing this. I'm a non-native user of English, and I may have messed this up. I'll try to remember about this. > [...] Nothing about natural languages is simple. "- In many languages, double negative means positive, but there is no language in which a double positive means negative. - Yeah, sure." (SCNR;-)) > > Thanks! -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University