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

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Hi Karel,

On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 at 14:14, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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 ;-).

I see. Those changes also work, of course. Thanks for fixing that conflict.

> The rest has been merged without change.

Thanks.

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
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