In message <[email protected]>, Ian Batten wri
tes:

>I'm normally quick to dismiss complaints about split infinitives
>as people attempting to make an argument about style into an argument
>about correct usage.  But whether your objection is stylistic or
>prescriptive, "These conditions will make the future interpretation
>of the now polysemous term impossible to unambiguously determine
>in many circumstances." is pretty horrid.

That's not a split infinitive, that is Danglish :-)


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