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  1. <[[Brennen]]> Is the prohibition on split infinitives actually a bad import from Latin grammar?
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  3. <[[Brennen]]> (Where bad == illogical, since Latin infinitives can't actually be split?)
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  5. Or am I making this up?
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  7. <[[Brennen]]> http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/cyc/s/split.htm
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  9. <[[Brennen]]> Oh yeah.  The wikipedia page on this is good.
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  11. Also, see http://p1k3.com/2003/2/26.