Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:44:59 -0400 From: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <38F5188B.C9D425C0@mail.ptd.net> References: <38F442DB.2FB8@funbox.demon.co.uk>
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do not reply to this address wrote: > > I believe that the latest edition of the OED allows split infinitives, > but (with luck :) I may be wrong... > > > In general, split infinitives are easier to understand, if > > only because the adverb is directly adjacent to the verb it modifies, > > and it is in the ordinary English position for modifiers: before. "To > > boldly go" is clearer and even scans better than "Boldly to go" or "To > > go boldly". Fowler would agree. > > *Does* Fowler agree? Me, I doubt it! On p. 581: a split infinitive "is preferable to either of two things, to real ambiguity, and to patent artificiality." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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