Amen, Mike. But then Americans invented the need to put adverbs
before the verb, leading pretty well directly to the split infinitive,
e.g. to boldly go :-)
Sorry about the generalisation though. And I love the "verbanise"
word ... :-)
Chris
On 3 Jan 2009, at 18:01, Mike Lazzari wrote:
> How about the demise of the adverb. Why do people stick on an
> adjective
> instead? It has almost become standard usage. Even the news anchors
> do it.
>
> An then there is verbanizing everything :-)
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