The following is the result of a nonsense conversation on Facebook...
Split
Infinitives – for Matt Scott
The people who reject the rules
and sprinkle their orations
With split infinitives and more
egregious violations ..." Anna Barham
My punctious pal says it’s
an ‘egregious violation
to gamely split infinitives,’
in Facebook conversation.
By ‘gamely’ does he mean in fun,
or doing it with vigour;
taking grammar at a run,
observing it with rigour?
To this the answer I’ve no thought,
but Strunk and White insist,
that split infinitives you ought
not never to dismiss.
No-nonsense Fowler
also works to rule;
considers it a howler
and thinks that you’re a fool.
But Mr Shakespeare, who
re language knew some little,
split infinitives - to show
he cared not a jot or a tittle.
