Emily Bowman writes:
> Whatever he meant, nothing about split infinitives is in my 1918
> original copy of Strunk's rules,
I'm not sure what you mean by "copy of rules", but it's mentioned
couple of times in the book. I'm referring to this passage, from
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37134/371
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 5:37 PM Greg Ewing
wrote:
> On 5/07/20 3:24 am, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> > Amusingly, Strunk (1918) was perfectly happy with split infinitives,
> > though he noted it centered whiteness. (Obviously he didn't put it
> > that way, more along the lines of "some people wil
On 5/07/20 3:24 am, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Amusingly, Strunk (1918) was perfectly happy with split infinitives,
though he noted it centered whiteness. (Obviously he didn't put it
that way, more along the lines of "some people will look down on
you.")
Um... what?
Are you saying that people
