01-13-2016, 11:00 AM
OK, I'll concede about my peeve with the stranded preposition. I'm not sure if my grandfather - a journalism teacher when he was alive - would forgive me. If he catches up with me in some form of the afterlife, I'm blaming you guys.
I'm all for the evolution of language. I don't even mind starting a sentence with a conjunction in the proper setting. But his usage seemed a tad excessive. :)
(BTW, the supposed Churchill quotation appears to be incorrectly attributed: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagel...01715.html.)
I'm all for the evolution of language. I don't even mind starting a sentence with a conjunction in the proper setting. But his usage seemed a tad excessive. :)
(BTW, the supposed Churchill quotation appears to be incorrectly attributed: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagel...01715.html.)