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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: To non-native English writers: expunging the solecism "This allows to do something."
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:35:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1aNjBL-0002pB-2Q@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fuxmzj03.fsf@rub.de> (message from Stephen Berman on Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:54:04 +0100)

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  > This does, however, also return several false positives, most of them
  > with "require" (one is written as `require' and one or two of the others
  > should probably be quoted like that).

I don't know for certain what you found, but "require to do" has the
same English usage rules as "permit to do" or "allow to do": the
entity that will do it must be stated.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-25 15:35 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 [this message]
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
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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