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 #2 (permalink) Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:03 am capability of doing v.s. capability to do |
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Hi LS,
In both examples I would choose 'of' butI'm not all that happy about the wording. Remember also 'ability to'.
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| #3 (permalink) Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:13 am capability of doing v.s. capability to do |
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Hi, Alan
Thanks for your advice !
Incidentally, did you mean that you would be happier with this wording The ability to dispose of an object is frequently useful ?
PS: I asked this question because I had read this in a book about programming:
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C#'s using statement supports the capability to initialize multiple variables as long
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| #4 (permalink) Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:29 am capability of doing v.s. capability to do |
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Hi LS,
What I was really getting at was that (going back to the adjective form) there are two constructions: able to do and capable of doing. As for the English used, to me it has a touch of gobbledegook and sounds very much like the sort of language you get from a translating machine.
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