Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 10:18:08 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <200004131418.KAA02504@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <xzpem8ai4xy.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 13-Apr-00 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > 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. Heh, in actuality this sentence just sucks and needs to be reworded rather than rearranged. > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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