This promises to be a most interesting thread. There was a movie made
here in the US called "The Village," which was about a modern-day
Utopian community living as if it were the 1800s. It's variously
categorised as horror, adventure or drama, though it really isn't any of
those. One of the things one notices is the particulars of grammar,
most especially avoiding a preposition at the end of a sentence.
This was spoofed marvellously in one of the "Scary Movie" series (I
don't recall which one; it's a sequence of US movies that spoof
well-known horror/scary movies). In a scene spoofing "The Village," one
of the characters utters this line, which I actually wrote down so I
would remember -- and it shows that no matter how hard you try, those
prepositions are sometimes unavoidable: "Do not speak of that of about
which we talk of not speaking about."
And this comes as the last of a sequence of increasingly prepositioned
sentences, each one getting increasingly worse until it ends with that
'masterpiece.'
Thurlow
in Lancaster Ohio,
who speaks not of that of about which we do not speak, about which I
have already spoken.......... [insert endless groaning here :) ] And if
your brain can get around that one, consider it your mental exercise for
the week
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