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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Rostislav Svoboda <rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com>,
	"emacs-devel@gnu.org Development" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: To non-native English writers: expunging the solecism "This allows to do something."
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 20:47:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878u3da1ay.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160125161849.GC4500@acm.fritz.box> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:18:49 +0000")

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> (Incidentally, the language spoken where I live is not English.)

Bavarian, I suppose. I don't understand it at all.

Best regards, Michael.



  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-25 19:47 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
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 [this message]
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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