On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:03:13AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > This is the last call for comments for the review of debconf > templates for xorg. > > The reviewed templates will be sent on Friday, April 06, 2007 to the package > maintainer as a bug report and a mail will be sent to this list with > "[BTS]" as a subject tag. Hmm, well, it's still 6 April in *my* time zone, but I did notice one thing. > - vbe : support for VESA BIOS Extensions. Allows to query > the monitor capabilities via the video card; > - ddc : support for Data Display Channel, respectively. Allows to query > the monitor capabilities via the video card; "Allows to" is bad English[1]. Better: * "Allows one to query" * "Allows querying of" My preference: * "Enables querying of" [1] "to allow" nearly always takes a direct object. Exception are when it is used as a participial or gerund, e.g., "That's not allowed." or "We'll release etch on schedule, the RC bug count allowing." -- G. Branden Robinson | The Rehnquist Court has never Debian GNU/Linux | encountered a criminal statute it branden@debian.org | did not like. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- John Dean
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