Re: English Lesson: Monty Python

Einde O'Callaghan wrote:


> There is nothing innately ungrammatical about split infinitives in 
> English. They can be found in numerous writers from the time of Chaucer 
> onwards. they only started to be frowned on when some bright sparks who 
> thought that English grammar should be like Latin grammar (a radically 
> different language) came up with the idea that because you couldn't 
> split an infinitive in latin (not surprising since latin infinitives are

> always one word) this should also be the case in English.

> In my opinion, complaints about split infinitives are the province of 
> pedants.

Hear, hear Einde.

Illiterate pedants, perhaps?