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Why it's supposed to be bad to split infinitives -- Renaissance English intellectuals thought the classics were neatest and Latin was best and in Latin, like several other languages, you can't split infinitives because they are one word -- *esse*: to be and *habere*: to have -- and like that. Therefore, in order to snottily and pointlessly bring their own language into false similarity with Latin they tried to greatly limit its flexibility by imposing the no split infinitives rule. Obviously, this is cultural imperialism to be resisted by all right-minded people.

Same thing with ending sentences with prepositions. In Latin, you can't, no matter how hard you try, so we heirs to grunting German tribes shouldn't be able to. Or so said 16th century assimilationists, and some still listen. Death to tyrants! Split to infinitives!

    --Anne Herbert
	Why it's supposed to be bad to split infinitives -- Renaissance English intellectuals thought the classics were neatest and Latin was best and in Latin, like several other languages, you can't split infinitives because they are one word -- esse: to be and habere: to have -- and like that. Therefore, in order to snottily and pointlessly bring their own language into false similarity with Latin they tried to greatly limit its flexibility by imposing the no split infinitives rule. Obviously, this is cultural imperialism to be resisted by all right-minded people.

	Same thing with ending sentences with prepositions. In Latin, you can't, no matter how hard you try, so we heirs to grunting German tribes shouldn't be able to. Or so said 16th century assimilationists, and some still listen. Death to tyrants! Split to infinitives!

	--Anne Herbert