Comments | edders: grammar yuck moment

edders

grammar yuck moment

Mar 10, 2009 19:58

I just discovered my greatest grammatical offense these days. I have been known to often split infinitives! :-P ( Read more... )

Comments 7

adufiniel March 11 2009, 02:23:11 UTC

Don't feel bad, I do that all the time. Also, I didn't learn English grammar until I took Latin.

edders March 11 2009, 02:57:08 UTC

totally, yeah! two semesters of Latin made me completely aware of dative vs. accusative objects, and actually changed the way I form sentences and use prepositions now... o_0

marikoshikibu March 11 2009, 02:36:15 UTC

....Do what now?

Yes I know I have an English degree and am an English TEACHER now. >.>; I never had one class on grammar in my grade school district, nor was it ever required in any shape or form in college T0T

Although I had a conversation with a friend this past weekend who said we can trace all of the frequently ignored in speech grammar rules to this one book by this one guy who decided to make things that way. So we shouldn't be too hard on ourselves.

ra1330 March 11 2009, 04:33:32 UTC

Bah!

How far do you think Star Trek would've gotten if the mission was "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to go boldly where no man has gone before"? Or, worse, "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, boldly to go where no man has gone before"?

Not very far, I tell ya.

edders March 11 2009, 04:38:01 UTC

hahahhahahahaha

win

hottippic March 11 2009, 15:46:55 UTC

lol your comment is made of win.

hottippic March 11 2009, 15:57:57 UTC

Split infinitives are acceptable when appropriate.

Wikipedia has a really good entry on split infinitives and the history of the debate surrounding their use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_infinitive