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Re: Spelling error with no single correct



Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.


This one was on my ToDo list and had the following temp commit:
+(?i)allows to||allows _object_ to
+(?i)requires to||requires _object_ to
+(?i)helps to||helps _object_ to
+(?i)permits to||permits _object_ to

I don't remember why I wrote 'object' (now that I think about it should 
probably be s/object/subject/)

Not sure if using '_subject_' on the correction would be understood by 
everyone.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
www.debian.org - get.debian.net



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