You're not really talking about grammar. You're talking about stylistics. True, it's often called grammar when taught in schools, but it's mostly a set of prescriptive rules defining how one OUGHT to talk in a given (generally, socially advantageous) dialect of a language.
Grammar as linguists use the term (at least since the mid 1950s) is focused on descriptive rules. Rather than being the kind of thing you consiously learn, grammar is something that is developed, somehow, during first language acquisition. So, splitting infinitives, while prescriptively incorrect, is perfectly acceptable and grammatical in common English. The only reason why that particular school marm bugaboo exists is because it's not possible to split infinitives in Latin, and so the traditon was that stylistically, one ought not to do the same in English, despite the fact that we have a periphrastic infinitive and it's perfectly common as a structure.
For an example of ungrammatical sentences, consider the following:
I fed the cat with the fluffy tail
* I fed the cat with the fluffy it.
I've only substituted a pronoun for a single noun in the sentence above, but it's clearly incorrect to a native speaker of English, whereas in the sentence:
I see the tail.
I see it.
The mistake in the first example is an error no speaker of English would ever really make. Not because it's stylistically incorrect, but because it somehow violates a fundamental structural rule of the language.
If you had any idea how half assed the goings on at VZW were, behind the scenes, you'd be wondering how it is they actually manage to charge you for the service you get. Having witnessed some of it through a previous job, I was stunned.
Of course, they're still better than T-Mobile. With them, it's a miracle your device works at all.
If you can't take the anti-M$ slant, stay out of the Slashdot. It has long ago ceased to be either interesting or insightful to remark that the posters and editors of Slashdot apply a double standard when publicising security flaws, etc. Everyone knows this.
As a note to moderators: this is not insightful. The first time someone has an idea, that is insightful. The millionth time is redundant.
Ok, apart from the fact that the conversation got completely off topic (the original point was that Comcast was run by a slew of incompetent fools who couldn't find their asses with both hands, a map, flashlight, and team of expert consultants helping them) since you bring it up I'll respond:
There's nothing grossly disproportnate about it. You see, if a person makes 10 millon a year, and pays 38 percent of it in taxes they still wind up with six million dollars. If a person makes 70,000 a year and pays 30 percent on it, he has 49,000. If you compare what people keep after taxes, the rich person still has MUCH MORE MONEY that the middle class person.
If you have LOTS OF FUCKING MONEY, then it's reasonable to expect that you should bear a larger portion of the burden in keeping the society as a whole afloat, seeing as you benefit more from the advantages that the society provides you in garnering wealth.
1 out of 5 people wouldn't pay taxes, another 1 in 5 would call every tax period to complain about the quality of government service and get a credit amounting to 1/3 of their bill just to keep them quiet, with the rest paying regularly not knowing that if they just stopped doing so, there's a 50-50 shot anyone would notice.
As a chain Wawa (no second capital W) is vastly superior to a 7-11. The deli is better, the store is cleaner, the staff is generally less surly. Please, please, don't demean this wonderful chain by equating it with a 7-11; it's like saying Linux is basically a DOS like operating system.
Also, Wawa is an Native American word meaning Canada goose. (this piece of information courtesy of a carton of milk from the Wawa, back in my childhood).
on both my XP box (grrr. Work.) and my FreeBSD boxen (4.5, 5-current). I only noticed it in.9.9 on, though. That's probably my sole issue with the application; that and occasionally it doesn't render something right the first time. Oh, and sometimes my pr0n doesn't show up.
The poster you mention provided a quote from the message and then his quote from Churchill. That's a logical unit, which clearly means to imply, incorrectly, that the word "too" is a preposition. Whatever "youthinks," you're the one ass over ankles on this one.
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Grammar as linguists use the term (at least since the mid 1950s) is focused on descriptive rules. Rather than being the kind of thing you consiously learn, grammar is something that is developed, somehow, during first language acquisition. So, splitting infinitives, while prescriptively incorrect, is perfectly acceptable and grammatical in common English. The only reason why that particular school marm bugaboo exists is because it's not possible to split infinitives in Latin, and so the traditon was that stylistically, one ought not to do the same in English, despite the fact that we have a periphrastic infinitive and it's perfectly common as a structure.
For an example of ungrammatical sentences, consider the following:
I fed the cat with the fluffy tail
* I fed the cat with the fluffy it.
I've only substituted a pronoun for a single noun in the sentence above, but it's clearly incorrect to a native speaker of English, whereas in the sentence:
I see the tail.
I see it.
The mistake in the first example is an error no speaker of English would ever really make. Not because it's stylistically incorrect, but because it somehow violates a fundamental structural rule of the language.
If you had any idea how half assed the goings on at VZW were, behind the scenes, you'd be wondering how it is they actually manage to charge you for the service you get. Having witnessed some of it through a previous job, I was stunned. Of course, they're still better than T-Mobile. With them, it's a miracle your device works at all.
that's not funny. That's cliche.
If you can't take the anti-M$ slant, stay out of the Slashdot. It has long ago ceased to be either interesting or insightful to remark that the posters and editors of Slashdot apply a double standard when publicising security flaws, etc. Everyone knows this.
As a note to moderators: this is not insightful. The first time someone has an idea, that is insightful. The millionth time is redundant.
Yeah, that totally would have been worth my five bucks.
Where do you live that a movie costs only five bucks?
Ok, apart from the fact that the conversation got completely off topic (the original point was that Comcast was run by a slew of incompetent fools who couldn't find their asses with both hands, a map, flashlight, and team of expert consultants helping them) since you bring it up I'll respond:
There's nothing grossly disproportnate about it. You see, if a person makes 10 millon a year, and pays 38 percent of it in taxes they still wind up with six million dollars. If a person makes 70,000 a year and pays 30 percent on it, he has 49,000. If you compare what people keep after taxes, the rich person still has MUCH MORE MONEY that the middle class person.
If you have LOTS OF FUCKING MONEY, then it's reasonable to expect that you should bear a larger portion of the burden in keeping the society as a whole afloat, seeing as you benefit more from the advantages that the society provides you in garnering wealth.
1 out of 5 people wouldn't pay taxes, another 1 in 5 would call every tax period to complain about the quality of government service and get a credit amounting to 1/3 of their bill just to keep them quiet, with the rest paying regularly not knowing that if they just stopped doing so, there's a 50-50 shot anyone would notice.
As a chain Wawa (no second capital W) is vastly superior to a 7-11. The deli is better, the store is cleaner, the staff is generally less surly. Please, please, don't demean this wonderful chain by equating it with a 7-11; it's like saying Linux is basically a DOS like operating system.
Also, Wawa is an Native American word meaning Canada goose. (this piece of information courtesy of a carton of milk from the Wawa, back in my childhood).
the tube shaped callouses on my palms are thick enough to stop bullets. Almost like a super power, but stickier.
on both my XP box (grrr. Work.) and my FreeBSD boxen (4.5, 5-current). I only noticed it in .9.9 on, though. That's probably my sole issue with the application; that and occasionally it doesn't render something right the first time. Oh, and sometimes my pr0n doesn't show up.
The poster you mention provided a quote from the message and then his quote from Churchill. That's a logical unit, which clearly means to imply, incorrectly, that the word "too" is a preposition. Whatever "youthinks," you're the one ass over ankles on this one.