1418805 - typo on your welcome page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.firefox.com :: Release Notes, defect)

Description

[dicegeorge]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/62.0.3202.94 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/57.0/releasenotes/?utm_campaign=whatsnew&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_source=firefox-browser


Actual results:

"Your comments please: Completely new and re-designed Console panel. Joining the Debugger and the Network Monitor, the Console has been rewritten using modern web technologies such as React and Redux. It now also allows to inspect objects in context"


Expected results:

" It now also allows to inspect objects in context"
should maybe be
 It now also allows YOU to inspect objects in context
or US ?

Comment 1

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

I'm not an English native but AFAIK sometimes "you" is omitted in "... allows you to ..."

See https://www.google.com/search?q=%22It+allows+to%22

I think it's okay to keep it.

Comment 2

[dicegeorge]

I am an english native with lots of experience, I read Fowler's english usage many years ago, the sentence is certainly unwieldy and made me slow down when reading it as it doesnt make sense on first reading.

their example "¬It allows certain particles to pass"
is ok to my reading,
but 
"It now also allows to inspect objects in context"¬```````````````
is not,
perhaps because the particles are passing
but the objects are not inspecting.

It's an important webpage so i thought it worth my time to help improve it, in the spirit of open source.

I'm so glad firefox has speeded up - it reminds me of Netscape Navigator 1 and 2 

George

Comment 3

[Gingerbread Man]

(In reply to dicegeorge from comment #0)
> " It now also allows to inspect objects in context"

That's broken English.
"Allows to, permits to, etc.: An error by non-native English speakers, especially in software and other product advertising and documentation, that has become so common in the last decade that it has even been picked up by some native speakers."
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Use_modern_language#Examples_of_postmodernisms

Also see
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/85069/is-the-construction-it-allows-to-proper-english/85080#85080

Comment 4

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

Well, adding one word should be easy.

Comment 5

[Liz Henry (:lizzard)]

I changed it to "It now also allows inspection of objects in context" thus avoiding the pronoun. Thanks for pointing that out, dicegeorge!