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Re:People will pay for content by herdrick on Saturday December 26, 2009 @05:50AM (#1015878)
I thought the same thing, but Wikipedia reports that although in Old English some verbs were formed with "to" (I didn't even know that) splitting them was never done.
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Re:People will pay for content by carbocation on Saturday December 26, 2009 @12:48PM (#1016109)
It is different. You are talking about an observation made about a prior iteration of English (descriptive). I am talking about arbitrary rules created long after the development of the current iteration of English (prescriptive or, more accurately, proscriptive).
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Re:People will pay for content by herdrick on Sunday December 27, 2009 @02:57AM (#1016857)
I want to blindly accept that argument but I can't. Those who choose to casually break the rules of the language need swiftly to firmly be reprimanded.
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Re:People will pay for content by carbocation on Thursday December 31, 2009 @07:59PM (#1025292)
+1, sir!
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