From: Rostislav Svoboda <rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,
"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 17:55:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEtmmewoWjvgzVv46LctumF1+6izUNkj9VW0L6yKnaUkTw_f=w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1aNjBF-0002hG-So@fencepost.gnu.org>
> In addition, that formation is unclear
> because it fails to say who or what will do the thing.
For Slavic language natives like me and Marcin, constructions like
"This allows to do something" work perfectly well.
Sorry guys :)
We simply don't find it to be that important to specify who or what
will do things. You know... lazy evaluation at it's best :)
> > Well :)
> > Wait for about 30 - 35 years at will be.
>
> That is my fear, which is partly why I'm doing something small to help
> prevent it. ;-)
That's an uphill struggle, Alan :) Besides, believe me there's nothing
to fear about :) Free your mind! :)
Bost
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-25 16:55 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
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 [this message]
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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