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To: SunkenCiv
I like the bit (at 6:33) about teachers telling their students "to carefully avoid splitting infinitives" (which is an example of a split infinitive).

English has so many loanwords from so many languages that we'd really be in trouble if they all had to be returned.

10 posted on 06/10/2025 10:30:20 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Heh... yeah... I’m glad he covered that one.


15 posted on 06/10/2025 11:46:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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