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From: Bruce Stephens <bruce+usenet@cenderis.demon.co.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice?
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 13:47:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqvrsasv.fsf@cenderis.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b5366892-420e-4326-8c62-ae21b453286c@g21g2000prn.googlegroups.com

Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> PS for those who got it wrong, don't feel bad. Few people on this
> earth can get it right, and most of them mob toilets at McDonalds.
> Just be happy that we all understand split infinitives, at least.

Of course, as regularly mentioned on Language Log, splitting infinitives
is (and always has been) fine in English.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-03 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-03  3:06 emacs documentation: what's active voice, passive voice? Xah Lee
2010-10-03 11:14 ` Uday Reddy
2010-10-03 19:29   ` Russ P.
2010-10-03 19:38     ` Jay Belanger
2010-10-03 20:50       ` David Kastrup
2010-10-03 22:57         ` Russ P.
2010-10-04 18:48     ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-10-05  0:53       ` Russ P.
     [not found]         ` <ias317$dtr$2@reader1.panix.com>
2010-11-04 19:22           ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-04 20:10             ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-12-09 17:48       ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10  1:16         ` Sean Sieger
2010-12-10 16:04           ` ken
2010-10-03 12:47 ` Bruce Stephens [this message]
2010-10-03 22:07 ` B. T. Raven
2010-10-04  6:52   ` David Kastrup
2010-10-05  4:02     ` B. T. Raven
2010-11-03 16:34       ` David Combs

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