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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

No, USFriend, I shall NOT split an infinitive.
The nuns told me never to do that.

Ya know, when I sent this post, I said to a friend, someone will reply with a lengthy explanation of why I am wrong.
I appreciate your trying to dissuade me, but NO splits.
My background is closer to Latin and Romance anyway, so others with same might feel the same.


38 posted on 05/05/2019 5:39:16 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: Maris Crane

We can disagree about whether we need to scrupulously avoid splitting infinitives. Meanwhile, our language is being assaulted in more serious ways. For instance, all my teachers taught me that “they” was a plural pronoun, and to never use it to reference an individual. That was a useful rule, as the reader or listener knew that it referred to two or more individuals. Today, we’re often left confused, when the (formerly) plural pronoun is also used to refer to individuals, who don’t know which sex they are.


43 posted on 05/08/2019 3:38:44 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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