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Subject:Re: Why kids can't write well -Reply From:Lester Klein <lklein -at- CAP -dot- GWU -dot- EDU> Date:Tue, 16 Aug 1994 19:11:33 -0400
A proposition is something one should never end a sentence with.
and
It is very poor style to ever split an infinitive.
Les Klein
114 Melbourne Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20901
301-87-0659, lklein -at- cap -dot- gwu -dot- edu
On Tue, 16 Aug 1994, Sally Marquigny wrote:
> "it" isn't a prepositional phrase! ;)
> Perhaps the joke went "Where is Harvard Square at?"
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> Subject: Re: Why kids can't write well -Reply
> Date: Tuesday, August 16, 1994 7:28AM
> Kayla Westra wrote:
> I have to tell this joke here. Actually, I heard it on _Designing
> Women_ a couple of years back.
> Young Southern debutante greets older Southern lady:
> "Good evening, maam. Where you all from?"
> Older Southern lady:
> "Well, I'm from where ladies don't end their sentences with
> propositions."
> Young Southern debutante:
> "Excuse me, maam. Where you all from, bitch?"
> I heard a variation on this joke way back in 1968. It went:
> Incoming freshman at Harvard:
> "Excuse me. What time is it?"
> Snooty upperclassman:
> "I beg your pardon. At Harvard, we do not end a sentence in a
> preposition."
> Incoming freshman:
> "Okay. What time is it, stupid?"
> Perhaps sitcom writers aren't as original as they would like people
> to think.
