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From: eric@gang.UUCP (Eric Kiebler)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Inappropriate Articles
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Date: Fri, 18-May-84 13:00:16 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 18 13:00:16 1984
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[Split hares -- not infinitives!]

/* Gosh... I bet the mailers are changing (gasp -- censoring) our
articles, splitting our infinitives, discombobulating our hoohaa's, even. */

From the revered lips of Strunk and White,

	"The split infinitive is another trick of rhetoric in which
	the ear must be quicker than the handbook.  Some infinitives
	seem to improve on being split, just as a stick of stovewood
	does (how appropriate! -- eric).  'I cannot bring myself to
	really like the fellow.'  The sentence is relaxed, the meaning
	is clear, the violation is harmless and scarcely perceptible.
	Put the other way, the sentence becomes stiff, needlessly
	formal.  A matter of ear."  pp. 78

As far as Netlish in general goes,

	"The question of ear is vital.  Only the writer whose ear is 
	reliable is in a position to use bad grammar deliberately;
	only he knows for sure when a colloquialism is better than
	format phrasing;  only he is able to sustain his work at the
	level of good taste.  So cock your ear." pp. 77

And your little dog, too.  It is our Strunk-given right to
someadverbly flame.  A pox on your portfolio.  And we don't care where our
prepositions are at. (Is this Princeton?)  Spelling doesn't madder, ether.

eric
:-)
-- 
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I stand corrected but indifferent.