Re: Spelling error with no single correct
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> For those of you who have not seen it, there was filed a bug against
> Lintian in Ubuntu requesting Lintian to catch the misspelling "allows
> to"[1].
> Unfortunately, there do not seem to be an "always correct"
> replacement[2]. I have attached a patch that uses [correction is
> context dependent] as correction (it intentionally do not pass the
> spelling-multiword, so you can see the output by running that test).
> The question is... can we do better than this?
> ~Niels
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/608231
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lintian/+bug/608231/comments/2
While I agree with this message that idiomatic English would call for
different phrasing in a lot of places, I think correcting "allows to" to
"allows one to" would be acceptable, if not ideal, phrasing in every
example given there.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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