Where no man has gone before . . .
Plywood Memories from Gencon to Vegas
Out trip to Gencon took us up through the Arkansas Delta country, and into the boot of Missouri, across the Big Muddy and on into the spra...
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Where do the Roads to Adventure lead? Countless battles and hordes retrieved! How now do the spoils of your endeavors pay off? In stone and... -
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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