Re: English Changes or what into Conlangs
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 7, 1999, 2:52 |
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Bryan Maloney wrote:
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> On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Padraic Brown wrote:
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> > I'd like to quickly add that I've never split an infinitive in my
> > life. And am not precisely sure _how_ one would do it. I've done the
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> Prescriptionists claim that "to go" is the infinitive of go. Thus "To
> boldly go where no man has gone before!" is splitting the infinitive
> (inserting "boldly" between "to" and "go").
I was sure Padraic was joking, because he splits an infinitive in the
first five words: "I'd like to quickly add..."
ha ha!
Sally
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