[Richie] > 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.
[Steve] > I am presuming this post was meant to be a joke? It was. > No smileys, though, so you force us to make up our own minds. Yes. 8-) > Or is "the green tomato" also unacceptable? It ought to be considered unacceptable by people who think that "to correctly apply" is unacceptable, which is the point that Stephen was making: > *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. Split nominatives like "the green tomato" are also impossible in Latin, but no-one seems to object to their use in English. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
