On Sun, March 2, 2008 12:25 pm, Michael J McCafferty wrote: > > A Lesson From Beavis and Butthead: > > Agent Bork: Chief! Ya know that guy whose camper they were whackin' off > in? > > Agent Fleming: Bork, you're a federal agent! You represent the United > States Government! Never end a sentence with a preposition. > > Agent Bork: Oh, uh... Ya know that guy in whose camper they... I... I > mean, that guy off in whose camper they were whacking? > >
Winston Churchill is supposed to have famously said " ... that is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put!" A lot of English grammer was codified in the 18th century and was slavishly derived from the ideals of classical Latin and Greek. Which led to such absurdities as not "splitting" an infinitive, one sord in Latin and two in English (to love is "amare").And it makes perfectly good English sense to feliticiously put an adverb between these two words. But we're straying from spelling, and the whole thread entered kooler-land a long time ago. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
