I welcome the call to boldly split our infinitives https://economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21741127-boldly-go-where-grammarians-have-feared-tread-ban-split-infinitives
"No split infinitives" is one of those weird holdovers from grammarians who believed Latin was some sort of god-language that every other language needed to mimic, even when it made no sense.
"Don't end a sentence in a preposition" is another rule that it's hard to deal with. Or to adhere to. Or to put up with.
@nolan The splitting of infinitives is something up with which I shall not put.
@nolan Yes! This! Split infinitives is a very English thing to do! It is a capability that many other languages just simply don't have. So we should clearly do it at every opportunity.
Sales with the final proposition.
@benhamill @nolan Yes! The no split infinitives comes from Latin and, like you say, is literally impossible in that language!
@nolan Bleh. "Same with the final preposition." Thanks, autocorrupt.
@nolan while neither is a rule of grammar properly speaking but a rule of style, nevertheless avoiding the splitting of infinitives and the ending of clauses with prepositions leads generally to more emphatic prose.
@nolan needed to slavishly mimic
@nolan Language moves.
@nolan *splits infinitives so hard that I eliding the entire rest of the Verb Phrase out of existence, because I want to*