Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 10:16:21 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Chris Browning <brownicm@prokyon.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Subject: Re: English style (was: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)) Message-ID: <19990201101621.Z8473@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990131102312.brownicm@prokyon.com>; from Chris Browning on Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 10:23:12AM -0500 References: <19990130144416.Q8473@freebie.lemis.com> <XFMail.990131102312.brownicm@prokyon.com>
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On Sunday, 31 January 1999 at 10:23:12 -0500, Chris Browning wrote: > On 30-Jan-99 Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Saturday, 30 January 1999 at 4:07:10 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: >>> American-English and Australian-English are both derivatives of >>> English (I object to the term "British-English"). If Americans have >>> considered the split infinitive grammatically correct for many years >>> then that is up to them, but in _English_ it has only recently >>> become accepted as grammatically correct. >> >> What I quoted indicates that the situation is similar in the USA. The >> thirteenth edition was published in 1982, the fourteenth in 1993. > > 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
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