From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 31 15:47:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA13161 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 15:47:59 -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 PAA13132 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 1999 15:47:53 -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 KAA15097; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 10:16:23 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id KAA61683; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 10:16:21 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 10:16:21 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Chris Browning Cc: FreeBSD Chat , Mikhail Teterin , Poul-Henning Kamp , Sheldon Hearn , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Mark Ovens Subject: Re: English style (was: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)) Message-ID: <19990201101621.Z8473@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990130144416.Q8473@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Chris Browning on Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 10:23:12AM -0500 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 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