On 04/07/2020 21:23, MRAB wrote:
On 2020-07-04 19:23, Paul Moore wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 17:48, MRAB wrote:
>
> On 2020-07-04 05:51, Greg Ewing wrote:
> > On 4/07/20 4:33 am, Jim J. Jewett wrote:
> >> If Bob and Alice seem neutral to you, would you do a double-take
on Kehinde or Oladotun
MRAB writes:
> On 2020-07-04 16:23, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > 3. Write in a comfortable dialect. (Exceptions: legalese and
> > The Academic Register are strictly forbidden, even if you're
> > native in one of those. :-)
> I'd also add: Try to avoid regionalisms; aim for a br
Emily Bowman writes:
> Whatever he meant, nothing about split infinitives is in my 1918
> original copy of Strunk's rules,
I'm not sure what you mean by "copy of rules", but it's mentioned
couple of times in the book. I'm referring to this passage, from
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37134/371
Greg Ewing writes:
> 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.")
On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 2:37 PM Stephen J. Turnbull <
turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
> > Are you saying that people who split infinitives are usually
> > black,
>
> Of course not. Base rates suggest they're mostly white.
>
I think that's not true. According to this, English speake
On 6/07/20 2:56 am, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Thing is, I'm sure I've used Americanisms and even the dreaded
Academic Register, but I sure never noticed them! :-)
Or, in non-American, "surely never noticed them". :-)
--
Greg
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