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Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.
If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
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A man who spins fables and fantastic tales from his life is dying - his journalist son finally wants his father to tell the truth in director Tim Burton's colorful, eye-popping story.I'm not sure, but I'd bet this is the result of a fear of infinitive splitting.
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I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 12:17 AM, March 03, 2014
Kathie had this to say...
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At 8:35 AM, March 03, 2014
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Why not "...his journalist son wants his father finally to tell the truth..."?
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"...his journalist son wants his father to tell the truth at last..."?
Sure. Of course either of those would work. I'm not prescribing split infinitives. I'm only say that neither of those wordings would have prompted the rewrite that gave us the phrasing with the wrong meaning. An editor wouldn't have touched them.
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