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Date:      Wed, 12 Apr 2000 10:15:39 +0100
From:      dev.null@funbox.demon.co.uk (do not reply to this address)
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSDCon East
Message-ID:  <38F43EBB.2F79@funbox.demon.co.uk>

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Thomas Sommers wrote:

> In what ways is it fiendishly difficult?  Many so-called grammatical
> rules, such as to not split infinitives, are nothing but some 18th
> century antiquarian's idea of what the language should be, not what it
> really is.

Try the correct use of the subjunctive.  Also, these days even the
gerund is often embedded in incorrect usage.

And it goes without saying that there is frequently a difference between
the colloquial and the correct.

-- Tim Jackson
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