When I write these little thingies, I sometimes decide to boldly split infinitives that have never been split before.
But that’s apparently okay.
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put.
But, since it’s your turn, you can go crazy. Share whatever comes to mind, any way you want. After all, it’s Saturday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
An English professor complained to the pet shop proprietor, “The parrot I purchased uses improper language.”
“I’m surprised,” said the owner. “I’ve never taught that bird to swear.”
“Oh, it isn’t that,” explained the professor. “But yesterday I heard him split an infinitive.”
Split infinitives….
Never appreciated those rules.
“To boldly go where no man has gone before” has far more style than:
“To go boldly where no man has gone before.”
Two days late: on June 22nd, 1941, Hitler thought it would be a great, TERRIFIC idea to invade the Soviet Union.
In other words, the equivalent of Rhode Island invading Canada (if Canada happened to have millions of Mongolians to recruit) with no thought at all devoted to the logistics of supply involved, the sheer distances involved, and the impact of the entirely foreseeable, inevitable onset of winter on the troops with no winter uniforms. Not to mention the intevening rain & mud season. While fighting on a second front.
Such a military genius.
No wonder Churchill slept soundly the night Japan dragged the U.S. into the war.
Hitler’s top 59 mistakes:
http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/91q2/tophitler.html
So 6 minutes on splitting infinitives as though I actually know what an infinitive is.
George Orwell was born June 25, 1903. If he were still alive, he’d be getting lots of material from college campuses, the New York Times and Washington Post, and the Democrat party.
Send them all to room 101.
I fell asleep early last night and forgot to post a song for a Saturday. So here it is a day late…
somehow more believable when they sing it
True, that’s why I posted this version rather than Elton John’s version.