Niels Thykier <[email protected]> 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. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
