Re: [PATCH 5/5] Manual pages: various: reword "allow(s) to"

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 11:57:41AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> The wording "allow(s) to" is not grammatical English. Reword various
> pages to use a more correct form such "can be use to" or "allows
> the [noun] of".
> 
> Aklong the way, fix a few nearby wording errors in some pages.

Some of the "allow to" has been already fixed by Bjarni Ingi Gislason
(well, his fix is "allows <verb>ing" -- not sure what is better ;-).

The rest has been merged without change.

  Karel


-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com




[Index of Archives]     [Netdev]     [Ethernet Bridging]     [Linux Wireless]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Security]     [Linux for Hams]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux Admin]     [Samba]

  Powered by Linux