Re: OT: English [was Re: [Pan-users] Re: freeze, high CPU getting new headers]

[Joe Zeff]

On 08/05/2008 Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> [...]
> > > (Oh crap, now my old teacher
> > > would whack my knuckles for ending a sentence with a preposition.)
>
> I hope you would say, "Listen up you old biddy, if ending sentences 
> with 
> prepositions was good enough for Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton, to 
> say nothing of Winston Churchill and the Queen herself, it's good 
> enough for me."

Better, of course, would be to say, "Look, lady, in that context, it's 
not a preposition, it's a particle and there's nothing wrong with ending 
a sentence with a particle.  You are right, however, that it's wrong, a 
sentence to end, a preposition with."