[Gllug] There are no regular verbs in English (seriously OT!!)

[Doug Winter]

On Thu 19 Jun Gordon Joly wrote:
> The "To boldly go..." debate (split infinitive) is an example of a
> rule from a dead language (Latiin) being applied to living, breathing,
> English by pseudo-academics, innit?

No it's not.  IIRC infinitives in latin cannot be split, since they are
a single word, so how can it be a rule from Latin?

Anyway, you're allowed to split infinitives now, it says so in the OED.
So that's alright then.

Cheers,

doug.

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