Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 17:42:57 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: English style (was: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)) Message-ID: <36B2C611.641223EC@newsguy.com> References: <90073.917600532@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <36B1CABD.BCC90EC7@newsguy.com> <19990130101911.V8473@freebie.lemis.com> <36B27388.E1E1D99A@uk.radan.com> <19990130133214.J8473@freebie.lemis.com> <36B2856E.FE4B1383@uk.radan.com>
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Mark Ovens wrote: > > "...that the Americans are more likely to accept..."?. I thought we were > talking about English?. The official definition of the English language > is the OED, so to quote an obviously American journal on a point of > English grammar is inappropriate. American-English and > Australian-English are both derivatives of English (I object to the term > "British-English"). If Americans have considered the split infinitive > grammatically correct for many years then that is up to them, but in > _English_ it has only recently become accepted as grammatically correct. Err... you mean, *after* it only became incorrect in the second half of last century? Because *before* that, there has never been any talk about split infinitives being incorrect. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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