When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

Richie Hindle richie at entrian.com
Fri Oct 7 07:34:13 EDT 2005


[Steve]
> and yes, I split that infinitive just to 
> annoy any pedants who may be reading

[Steven]
> *Real* pedants will know that English is not Latin, does not follow the
> grammatical rules of Latin, and that just because split infinitives are
> impossible -- not forbidden, impossible -- in Latin is no reason to forbid
> them in English.

Your previous post to this thread was chock-full of split nominatives: "The
Hollywood voice", "the specific regional accent", "the English-speaking
world", "the original French".  And you call yourself a grammarian.

-- 
Richie Hindle
richie at entrian.com



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