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: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 04:37:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20160124210602.GA7711@acm.fritz.box> <56A65043.5070509@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453801098 14565 80.91.229.3 (26 Jan 2016 09:38:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:38:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 26 10:38:08 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 1aO04b-0002DA-PD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:38:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42601 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO04b-0001Dj-2m for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 04:38:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49464) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO04D-00011G-Gq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 04:37:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO04C-0001OH-Es for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 04:37:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:60041) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aO047-0001LI-Dj; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 04:37:35 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aO046-0007Ey-OL; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 04:37:34 -0500 In-reply-to: <56A65043.5070509@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 25 Jan 2016 08:41:39 -0800) 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:198836 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. ]]] > "So far the object is not only lawful, but it is the mere exercise of a > right which the law allows to every individual." This is a different construction, since "to" is a preposition, not a part of an infinitive. Note also that "allows" here has a direct object, "a right". -- 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.