I was fuming about that one the other day. It was changed from the
"...to boldly go where no man has gone before." in the original Star
Trek series to a more PC "...no-one has gone..." but they retained
the awful, awful adverbially split infinitive. Did not anyone
notice?! I'll bet that someone pointed it out but that a decision was
made in some committee tokeep it for reasons of...oh, tradition or
something. I don't mind a reasonable split infinitive at all but that
one is so clearly, horribly and obviously WRONG!
It appears that political correctness trumps good grammar.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 04/01/2009, at 5:12 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Amen, Mike. But then Americans invented the need to put adverbs
> before the verb, leading pretty well directly to the split infinitive,
> e.g. to boldly go :-)
--
_________________________________________________________________
Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus
Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/
Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/
|