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Re: Spelling error with no single correct



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On 2011-01-06 19:37, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> 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,

Personally I do not feel strongly about either solution, though I fear
you might be right with people not understanding the "_subject_" notation.

~Niels

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