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Re: About linguistic (in)tolerance

From:Raymond A. Brown <raybrown@...>
Date:Friday, March 26, 1999, 7:04
At 2:58 pm -0800 25/3/99, charles wrote:
>> > This involves not using "split infinitives" (of course, no such >> > thing has ever existed in English, the grammarians to the contrary). >> >> Ah! Another person agreeing with me on that issue. :-) > >Otto Jesperson agreed too. He said that one might as well speak of a "split >nominative" when an adjective interposes between an article and its noun.
ABSOLUTELY!! I like that one Charles - I must remember it. And thanks to Tom Weir for his long but IMO excellent email. I really enjoyed reading it - it saved me a lot of work and was probably expressed a lot better than I could have done it. Thanks, you guys. I was feeling pretty tired & drained after as a long College term comes at last to a close. You've really cheered me up - the day will be much brighter now :) Ray.