From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 29 16:00:55 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04770 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:00:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04739 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 16:00:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA05603; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:19:14 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id KAA23968; Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:19:12 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:19:12 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Poul-Henning Kamp , Mikhail Teterin , FreeBSD Chat Subject: English style (was: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)) Message-ID: <19990130101911.V8473@freebie.lemis.com> References: <90073.917600532@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <36B1CABD.BCC90EC7@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <36B1CABD.BCC90EC7@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 11:50:37PM +0900 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [moved to chat] On Friday, 29 January 1999 at 23:50:37 +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Sheldon Hearn wrote: >> >> I didn't have a problem reading the sentence, even though you left out >> required commas. The only thing that caused a problem was your use of >> split infinitive. ;-) > > Split infinitive is a urban legend. It has *never* been outlawed in > the english language, except for some crazy people in this century > and, I think, later last century. How many English language laws are older? > In fact, when I learned this I saw some interesting examples of very > unreadable text because of lack of split infinitive. :-) Do share. 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