Re: About linguistic (in)tolerance

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.