On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 5:37 PM Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> On 5/07/20 3:24 am, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > > Amusingly, Strunk (1918) was perfectly happy with split infinitives, > > though he noted it centered whiteness. (Obviously he didn't put it > > that way, more along the lines of "some people will look down on > > you.") > > Um... what? > > Are you saying that people who split infinitives are usually > black, and the people who look down on them are white? If so, > it would seem that Strunk is actually standing up for black > people here. > > (I don't actually believe this has anything to do with race, > I'm just trying *to fully understand* your reasoning.) > Whatever he meant, nothing about split infinitives is in my 1918 original copy of Strunk's rules, which is basically a compilation of common-sense ways to not write like a legal paper or dissertation trying to baffle the reviewers into approval. Which, sadly, continues into this day. -Em
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