Writing Near Hills » english usage https://enkrates.com Bill Sullivan, on the web. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:35:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Learn the rules and then forget them https://enkrates.com/2010/01/14/learn-the-rules-and-then-forget-them/ https://enkrates.com/2010/01/14/learn-the-rules-and-then-forget-them/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:27:05 +0000 Bill Sullivan http://enkrates.com/?p=292 Continue reading →]]>

When it came to the notorious split infinitive (e.g., “to boldly go where no man . . .”), [Fowler] observed that those English speakers who neither know nor care about them “are to be envied” by the unhappy few who do.

- H. W. Fowler, the King of English

Certainly, any grammatical advice that goes up against Star Trek deserves what it gets. Somehow Fowler understood that, decades before anyone met Captain Pike, never mind Kirk.

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