From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice? Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 08:52:05 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87ocbabgbu.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291868125 5762 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 04:15:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 04:15:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 05:15:20 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQXuW-0005mE-Pj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:15:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44460 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQXuV-0003Gh-UQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:15:16 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!212.27.60.7.MISMATCH!feeder1-1.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+X+iw7fo0OrM2KYu8reOexjAvRc= Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 04 Oct 2010 08:52:05 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 23c01bf4.newsspool3.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=_1=67[a[U7CX36K@\WTHGJMcF=Q^Z^V3H4Fo<]lROoRA8kF_iYJ1_LiI6ENVaM3>5MOK`al0oRJ[JKAGi List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:76624 Archived-At: "B. T. Raven" writes: > Yes, by their very nature, infinitives are split in English: "to love" > vs. "amare." There's no room in the atom "amare" to insert anything. So where do you split the infinitive in "Don't make me cry"? I was not aware that "to" was a part of the infinitive proper. -- David Kastrup