When someone from Britain speaks, Americans hear a "British accent"...

[Steve Holden]

Richie Hindle wrote:
> [Steve]
> 
>>and yes, I split that infinitive just to 
>>annoy any pedants who may be reading
> 
> 
> [Steven]
> 
>>*Real* pedants will know that English is not Latin, does not follow the
>>grammatical rules of Latin, and that just because split infinitives are
>>impossible -- not forbidden, impossible -- in Latin is no reason to forbid
>>them in English.
> 
> 
> Your previous post to this thread was chock-full of split nominatives: "The
> Hollywood voice", "the specific regional accent", "the English-speaking
> world", "the original French".  And you call yourself a grammarian.
> 
I am presuming this post was meant to be a joke? No smileys, though, so 
you force us to make up our own minds.

Or is "the green tomato" also unacceptable?

regards
  Steve
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