Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 10:00:57 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: English style (was: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)) Message-ID: <XFMail.990201100057.brownicm@prokyon.com> In-Reply-To: <19990201101621.Z8473@freebie.lemis.com>
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Ya know, I got to thinking about that. You can't split one word, can you? Something I thought I read somewhere. My source must have been mistaken. I do know (now, there's an English verb construction) that there was a movement afoot in the 19th century to make English more "elegant" by applying the rules of proper Latin to it, as far as could be done, anyway. Maybe it had to do with splitting a verb and preposition. As in English "for to make", a construction we don't use anymore, but in French "pour faire" or Spanish "por hacer". I don't know. On 31-Jan-99 Greg Lehey wrote: >> FWIW, the proscription against the split infinitive, if I recall correctly, >> was >> introduced sometime in the 19th century. "Scholars" who noted that it was >> disallowed in Latin felt that English would be improved thereby. > > Disallowed in Latin? How could it be possible in Latin (or most other > European languages, for that matter)? > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com> Date: 01-Feb-99 Time: 09:31:34 Sent by XFMail 1.3 on FreeBSD 2.2.8 "if you believe in Nothing... honey, It believes in you." ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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