Einde O'Callaghan wrote:
> There is nothing innately ungrammatical about split infinitives in
> English. They can be found in numerous writers from the time of Chaucer
> onwards. they only started to be frowned on when some bright sparks who
> thought that English grammar should be like Latin grammar (a radically
> different language) came up with the idea that because you couldn't
> split an infinitive in latin (not surprising since latin infinitives are
> always one word) this should also be the case in English.
> In my opinion, complaints about split infinitives are the province of
> pedants.
Hear, hear Einde.
Illiterate pedants, perhaps?
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