From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 29 19:59:17 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA08398 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:59:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA08393 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 19:59:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20269; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:59:02 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd020213; Fri Jan 29 20:58:51 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA22512; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 20:58:41 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199901300358.UAA22512@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: English style (was: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)) To: marko@uk.radan.com (Mark Ovens) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 03:58:40 +0000 (GMT) Cc: grog@lemis.com, dcs@newsguy.com, axl@iafrica.com, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36B27388.E1E1D99A@uk.radan.com> from "Mark Ovens" at Jan 30, 99 02:50:48 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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