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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
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