tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jul 10 07:58:56 2003
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borrowed grammar
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: borrowed grammar
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:54:02 EDT
lawrence wrote:
> Your translation separates the syntactic marker from the verb, in a way
> that always makes me think of the prohibition against spliting infinitives.
this is an example of english grammar borrowed from latin (or simply made up)
and it's not really true in english, despite the decades (centuries?) of
pedants teaching otherwise.
lay'tel SIvten