Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 03:58:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: marko@uk.radan.com (Mark Ovens) Cc: grog@lemis.com, dcs@newsguy.com, axl@iafrica.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: English style (was: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)) Message-ID: <199901300358.UAA22512@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <36B27388.E1E1D99A@uk.radan.com> from "Mark Ovens" at Jan 30, 99 02:50:48 am
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> Not according to the OED. It is only in the most recent edition that the > split infinitive is officially recognized as grammatically correct. > > The classic example is Star Trek; "To boldly go.....", until now it > should have been "Boldly to go...", or "To go boldly....". > > Still, what the hell. We all speak American nowadays anyway ;-) "You can't put too much water in a nuclear reactor" "You can't look too long at a nuclear cloud" Ah, English... so many rules, up with which we do not put. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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