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- From: wondertr@fraser.sfu.ca (wondertree learning center)
- Subject: Re: Split Infinitive in System!
- Message-ID: <wondertr.725482492@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <725437806.AA00941@contrast.wlink.nl>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 18:54:52 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- qsi@contrast.wlink.nl (Peter Kocourek) writes:
-
- >Playing with ResEdit and my System file, I managed to trash it; upon
- >re-installing the "Ask before emptying" dialog of the trash can was enabled
- >again, and to my horror I discovered that it contains a split infinitive
- >"...to permanently remove..."
-
- >Am I just a sole lunatic in a wasteland of solecisms who notices this?
-
- >(Sorry, I had to get this off my chest. :-))
-
-
- >YHS:QSI!
- >
-
- The obvious reason for this blatant misuse of the English language must
- stem from that Sixty's Sci-Fi show recently repopularized ... Star Trek
- Remember that their mission was "... to BOLDLY go ..."
- I can only surmise that this is where the vile eroding of the English
- language must have started... (scorn and discontent)
-
- I am afraid that if this kind of thing continues to occur than our
- language will n'er be the same agin... ;)
-
- TED
-
-