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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: To non-native English writers: expunging the solecism "This allows to do something."
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 18:41:25 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dbf6ceec-9fb3-41c1-9dbe-51b2dd8315bc@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160124210602.GA7711@acm.fritz.box>

>     "This allows YOU to do something."
>     "This allows EMACS to do something."

Also: "This lets you do something."
 
>     "This allows SOMETHING to be done."

Also: "This lets SOMETHING be done."



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-25  2:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-24 21:06 To non-native English writers: expunging the solecism "This allows to do something." Alan Mackenzie
2016-01-24 22:20 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-24 22:54 ` Stephen Berman
2016-01-25 12:51   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-01-25 14:03     ` Phillip Lord
2016-01-25 14:25     ` Stephen Berman
2016-01-25 15:35   ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-25 20:10     ` Stephen Berman
2016-01-25  2:41 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-01-25 15:13 ` Rostislav Svoboda
2016-01-25 15:16   ` Rostislav Svoboda
2016-01-25 16:18   ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-01-25 19:47     ` Michael Albinus
2016-01-25 16:41   ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-26  9:37     ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-25 15:35 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-25 16:55   ` Rostislav Svoboda
2016-01-26  5:27     ` Yuri Khan
2016-01-26  9:37     ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-26 10:55       ` Rostislav Svoboda
2016-01-27  0:46         ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-25 23:14   ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-01-26  3:07     ` Xue Fuqiao
2016-01-27  0:48     ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-27 11:06     ` Alan Mackenzie
2016-01-27 16:31       ` Mathieu Lirzin

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