Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com> writes: > Unfortunately, "allows one to" isn't appropriate for a package > description either, unless it's a package intended for use only by the > Queen of England. Take the first example: "look at `memtester', which > allows one to test your memory within Linux". Allows one what to test > your memory? Allows anyone on the Internet to test your memory?
That sentence, while not ideal, seems good enough to this native speaker to suggest as a replacement. I wouldn't have given that sentence in the description a second thought. Use of "one" in that style as a generic pronoun is common usage in American English. In other words, the correction gets the description at least into the realm of the average description. Good review and rewriting by a native speaker can of course improve it further, but that's the case for many package descriptions. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/608231 Title: "allows to" in package descriptions not caught by lintian -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
