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Re: please make line-move-visual nil
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: please make line-move-visual nil |
Date: |
Fri, 15 May 2009 16:58:02 +0900 |
Stephen Berman <address@hidden> writes:
> One not too rarely encountered (and to me fairly acceptable)
> avoid+infinitive construction is when `avoid' is passivized with an
> expletive subject: "It should be avoided to ...". FWIW Google
To my ear, "avoid to" is clearly incorrect (and I think my ear is pretty
good).
There's _tons_ of bizarro grammar/misspellings/... on the net (googling
as a means of checking spelling is risky because of that!). I suspect
such usage is nowhere near the threshold where it's considered actually
part of the language though....
-Miles
--
A zen-buddhist walked into a pizza shop and
said, "Make me one with everything."
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- Re: please make line-move-visual nil,
Miles Bader <=
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