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Bug#622124: lintian: overzealous spell checking is actually wrong in one casse



Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk> writes:

> However it goes too far in asking for 'helps to' -> 'helps one to'.  In
> all the examples I have seen or can think of, both are grammatically
> correct but the one without is more appropriate. Adding 'one' makes it
> sounds long-winded and pompous.

Yeah, I think I agree.  I can think of various places where I'd say that,
as a native speaker, and would find that rephrasing unnatural.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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