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I agree with what you meant to say, but in truth, split infinitives are historically good and proper English. It was a prescriptive desire to make English more

by lmkg 16y ago

I agree with what you meant to say, but in truth, split infinitives are historically good and proper English. It was a prescriptive desire to make English more like Latin that led to the taboo against split infinitives (and ending sentences with prepositions), which is about as counter-idiomatic as formating Lisp parens according to K&R.

mcknz 16y ago
[1] http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/14636 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/14636 Then I suppose the complaint against split infinitives is really just an attempt to prescribe against awkward phrasing. Those crazy Victorians.