Stephen Black wrote:
Excellent, Karl, with one regrettable exception, your prohibition against split infinitives.
Call me old fashioned, you said. You're old fashioned, Karl. Consider this from the New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998), by way of a review of it on Michael Quinion's World Wide Words web page:
My complaint against split infinitives is that the adverb is not needed in most cases. Generally the adverb is an empty intensifier, as in "to really think" about an issue. Are readers worrying about "unreal thinking"?
Ken
--------------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA ---------------------------------------------------------------
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