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From: moriarty@uw-june (Jeff Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Inappropriate Articles
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Date: Sun, 20-May-84 15:03:32 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 20 15:03:32 1984
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>Seriously, the reason that splitting infinitives is not kulturny in
>English is that the old grammarians who tried to make English
>grammar match Latin grammar found that while it is possible to
>split infinitives in English--since the English infinitive is two
>words--it is not possible to split an infinitive in Latin, where
>the infinitive is just one word ("to love" in English becomes
>"amare" in Latin).  Since their sense of propriety was offended,
>they declared that split infinitives in English was bad grammar.
 
>			John Hobson
>			AT&T Bell Labs--Naperville, IL
>			ihnp4!iwpba!amigo
 
	Ah, yes, just another example of the multi-lingual conspiracy alive
and flourising in this country.  A bunch of foreign professors at some pinko
college (probably Oxford or Cambridge or one of those other temples to
Communism... bunch of pooftahs, the lot of 'em) get envious because our
country has neutron bombs and cable TV and Joan Collins (I bet they want 'er
back, too) and break dancing and Joe Bob Briggs and loads of fun stuff, and
all they have is a pretty-good looking princess who they can fantasize over,
and that's it (they don't even make very good cars either).  So they decide
to make fun of our language and tell us it ain't correct, just to make them
feel superior.  Well, let me ask all those stale limeys, how about all your
cockney folks, huh?  They can't even pronounce `h's.  Pretty sad state all
around if you ask me.  Frankly, any country that can produce the likes of
Rod McKuen has nothing to be ashamed of, literary-wise.
 
			"There... I've run rings 'round you logically"
 
					Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer

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