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Old 08-31-2012, 04:27 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
This argument (not yours, UT's) is the same kind of BS that leads people to write unnatural English in an attempt to avoid splitting infinitives or ending a sentence with a preposition.

In my ideal world, an "Advanced Grammar" class would teach people to avoid shibboleths like this, even at the risk of offending some ill-informed pedant.

Of course, in my ideal world I'm emperor, too.
Confusing two similar sounding words that are actually spelt differently and mean entirely different things is not even remotely similar to splitting infinitives etc...
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