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Date:      Fri, 29 Jan 1999 23:50:37 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)
Message-ID:  <36B1CABD.BCC90EC7@newsguy.com>
References:  <90073.917600532@axl.noc.iafrica.com>

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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> I didn't have a problem reading the sentence, even though you left out
> required commas. The only thing that caused a problem was your use of
> split infinitive. ;-)

Split infinitive is a urban legend. It has *never* been outlawed in
the english language, except for some crazy people in this century
and, I think, later last century.

In fact, when I learned this I saw some interesting examples of very
unreadable text because of lack of split infinitive. :-)

--
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com

	Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?


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