[kde-community] KDE Manifesto Revision (round 2)

[Paul Gideon Dann]

On Friday 22 Nov 2013 10:27:09 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> On Thursday 21 November 2013 21:24:21 Eike Hein wrote:
> > +1 from me, too, though iirc native speakers requested 'writable by' :)
> 
> You mean it should say:
> * All source materials are hosted on infrastructure available and writable
> by all KDE contributor accounts
> 
> Is it correct? I guess the problem is you'd write "available to" and
> "writable by" if I'm not mistaken... but both in the same sentence I wonder
> if one has precedence or something.

As a native UK English-speaker, I would write "... infrastructure available to 
and writable by ..."  Dropping one of the prepositions would, to me, look 
sloppy.

Paul
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