Re: [dev] [st] [PATCH] FAQ: fix wordingy

From: Greg Reagle <greg.reagle_AT_umbc.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2015 22:36:14 -0400

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 01:38:46AM +0100, Markus Teich wrote:
> Ivan Delalande wrote:
> > OpenBSD lacks of librt, despite it *being* mandatory in POSIX
>
> Heyho,
>
> While we're at it, according to my understanding of the english language the
> `of` is wrong and should be removed since `lack` is used as a verb and not as a
> noun here.

That's right. "to lack" is a transitive verb in English.
Received on Tue Mar 10 2015 - 03:36:14 CET