Where no man has gone before . . .
State of the Trolls, 2024
State of the Trolls It has been a momentous few years since my last State of the Troll. A great deal has happened since, from the OGL conund...
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Geoffrey Blackwood As is common knowledge, the Winter Dark lasted for 11 centuries. Locked in the grip of that long winter the world a... -
Myths can be scary. I won't go into a few because I just didn't want to read about infanticide this morning. But through infanticid...
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Ever since reading about Isaac Asimov's annoyance at Roddenberry's use of a split infinitive in this line, I can't help but pause and reform the words every time I read it or hear it. "To boldly go..." or "To go boldly..." Happily, they both work well, in my mind, but as someone who seeks to use grammar correctly, I often speak it as "to go boldly...". Trek fans often catch the switch and thus a conversation is started. First about grammar, and then about Star Trek. Win win!
Jeff Hallett
So, because the Romans were unable to split an infinitive, because it was a single word, we shouldn't be allowed to do so?
You posted about it on the internet, in English; which is something else the Romans couldn't do.
So what you two are saying is that Captain Kirk was a Roman?
Exactly, Stephen. After all, his middle name was Tiberius.
Jeff Hallett
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