mzminola:beautyofsorrow:(x)“TO BOLDLY GO” NOT GRAMMATICALLY INCORRECT AT ALL BECAUSE IT’
mzminola:beautyofsorrow:(x)“TO BOLDLY GO” NOT GRAMMATICALLY INCORRECT AT ALL BECAUSE IT’S IN ENGLISH NOT LATIN.SPLITTING INFINITIVES IS PERFECTLY CORRECT IN ENGLISH BECAUSE AN ENGLISH INFINITIVE IS MADE OF TWO WORDS, THE “TO" AND THE “WHATEVER THE FUCK YOUR VERB IS".IN LATIN AND OTHER ROMANCE LANGUAGE [as far as I am aware are there exceptions?] INFINITIVE VERBS ARE A SINGLE WORD, SO IT’S NOT ACTUALLY POSSIBLE TO SPLIT THEM.FOR INSTANCE, IN ENGLISH I COULD SAY “TO SWIM" BUT IN SPANISH I’D SAY “NADAR".Claiming “split infinitives" are grammatically incorrect is one of several rules leftover from earlier prescriptivist academics who took Latin grammar rules and superimposed them on English. -- source link
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