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Re: Daughter Sara Writing Lustful Things In Her Diary About Pasto
Yo, pedant:
"It was once a cherished superstition that prepositions must be kept true to their name and placed before the word they govern in spite of the incurable English instinct for putting them late. . . . Those who lay down the universal principle that final prepositions are 'inelegant' are unconsciously trying to deprive the English language of a valuable idiomatic resource, which has been used freely by all our greatest writers except those whose instinct for English idiom has been overpowered by notions of correctness derived from Latin standards."
(A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Henry W. Fowler, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1926)
Originally posted by Pasterfarian Skank
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"It was once a cherished superstition that prepositions must be kept true to their name and placed before the word they govern in spite of the incurable English instinct for putting them late. . . . Those who lay down the universal principle that final prepositions are 'inelegant' are unconsciously trying to deprive the English language of a valuable idiomatic resource, which has been used freely by all our greatest writers except those whose instinct for English idiom has been overpowered by notions of correctness derived from Latin standards."
(A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, Henry W. Fowler, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1926)
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