From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, bjc@spork.org,
arstoffel@gmail.com, juri@linkov.net
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: master 4c0c9d23ab 1/2: Rewrite the minibuffer lazy highlight feature
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 23:21:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ne75e-0007fF-3m@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR10MB5488F9B226A087D934DCA363F3EA9@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:14:51 +0000)
[[[ 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. ]]]
> "You can do XYZ."
> "ABC lets you do XYZ."
There is semantic sloppiness in using "lets" to mean "enables".
Likewise, using "permits" or "allows" is sloppy. They all refer to
giving permission for or authorizing an action.
For actively making something possible, "enable" is the clear word.
--
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-12 3:21 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <164961948912.5547.6176778706291368339@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <20220410193810.B2511C00890@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org>
2022-04-11 1:20 ` master 4c0c9d23ab 1/2: Rewrite the minibuffer lazy highlight feature Po Lu
2022-04-11 1:39 ` Brian Cully
2022-04-11 6:05 ` Augusto Stoffel
2022-04-11 16:49 ` Juri Linkov
2022-04-11 17:14 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-04-12 3:21 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-04-12 19:53 ` Drew Adams
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