Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 10:19:12 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: 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: English style (was: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)) Message-ID: <19990130101911.V8473@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <36B1CABD.BCC90EC7@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Fri, Jan 29, 1999 at 11:50:37PM %2B0900 References: <90073.917600532@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <36B1CABD.BCC90EC7@newsguy.com>
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[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
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