From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: To non-native English writers: expunging the solecism "This allows to do something." Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:35:55 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20160124210602.GA7711@acm.fritz.box> <87fuxmzj03.fsf@rub.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453736196 26055 80.91.229.3 (25 Jan 2016 15:36:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 15:36:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 25 16:36:21 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 1aNjBj-0002rb-Ex for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:36:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39298 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNjBi-0003vD-Nm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:36:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34638) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNjBQ-0003q7-Vf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:36:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNjBQ-0002gn-4c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:36:00 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39069) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aNjBL-0002cP-Km; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:35:55 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aNjBL-0002pB-2Q; Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:35:55 -0500 In-reply-to: <87fuxmzj03.fsf@rub.de> (message from Stephen Berman on Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:54:04 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:198772 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > This does, however, also return several false positives, most of them > with "require" (one is written as `require' and one or two of the others > should probably be quoted like that). I don't know for certain what you found, but "require to do" has the same English usage rules as "permit to do" or "allow to do": the entity that will do it must be stated. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.