[lg policy] Split infinitives

[Harold Schiffman]

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August 29, 2012

Rules That Eat Your Brain
http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2012/08/29/rules-that-eat-your-brain/

Mechanically unsplitting infinitives can make prose worse and
introduce needless ambiguity, says Geoff Pullum.
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