Date: 13 Apr 2000 14:03:05 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <xzpem8ai4xy.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: John Baldwin's message of "Wed, 12 Apr 2000 19:18:00 -0400 (EDT)" References: <200004122318.TAA00470@server.baldwin.cx>
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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > On 12-Apr-00 Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > Fowler gives the following example of a desirable split infinitive: > > "Our object is to further cement trade relations". > > Any rearrangement would give a wrong or ambiguous meaning. > > Our object is to cement trade relations further. > > There, what's ambiguous about that? :) Actuall, the original sentence is ambiguous since cement is also a noun. Substitute either "strengthen" or "apple" for "cement"; both variations make (a different) sense. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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