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To: Uncle Miltie

Best use of bad grammar:

“To boldly go where no man has gone before.”

That split infinitive is PERFECT.

“To go boldly where no man has gone before” just doesn’t cut it.

Regards,


10 posted on 12/30/2008 10:06:10 AM PST by VermiciousKnid (Wake up and smell the incense!)
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To: VermiciousKnid

How about to go boldly where no man has gone after?


48 posted on 12/30/2008 10:14:32 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: VermiciousKnid
Split infinitives: not really Bad Grammar.

Fowler, Partridge, and Gowers, all considered they could be used acceptably.

(Although Gowers did condemn the phrasing of "to immediately any litter or disorder shall have been made by him or for his purpose on the staircase or landings or any other part of the said building or garden remove the same.")

298 posted on 12/31/2008 5:51:37 AM PST by Oztrich Boy ("Never apologize, Mister. It's a sign of weakness" - Nathan Brittles)
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