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Pardon my mistake...I keep forgetting people speak proper English. My mistake would be a normal thing for deaf people to write. Damn linguist in me just can't stop!
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He's Been Trying To Edumacate Us ...
This is all mbyron's fault. We were all doing fine posting in one syllable words until he showed up.
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Oh sure, blame me.
![]() I read today that the kerfuffle over the presidential oath of office likely happened because Chief Justice Roberts is overly attached to the bogus rule against split infinitives. The grammarian Fowler was largely responsible for demonizing constructions like, "to boldly go where no man has gone before," but I had always thought that he pulled the rule out of his butt. Turns out he justified it by the fact that Latin infinitives are a single word, and concluded that English infinitives should not be split. I guess you gotta know where to draw the line. Oh, that probably applies to the OP, too. ![]()
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Nah, it happened because he tried to do it from memory and screwed up. Period!
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O Tempora, O Mores
Splitting infinitive phrases.
![]() Adjectives where adverbs belong. ![]() Newscasters improperly emphasizing the preposition. ![]() Incorrect punctuation in posts. ![]() Sentences ending with prepositions. ![]() Alas goes a society's regard for grammar, so goes its morals. Cf. Rome. These are errors up with which I'd prefer not to put. |
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