Dante's Hell re-imagined as linguistic sins

That is correct. Infinitives – “to [verb]” – are conjugated as one word in Latin. For example, “to love” is “amare”. For some reason, adding a modifier between “to” and the “verb” is thought of as breaking the Latin word, and therefore incorrect. You’d have to add a second word whether you said, “to love boldly” or “to boldly love”, so while I understand the logic behind it, in practice it feels very obsessive and compulsive toward arbitrary rules.

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Technically correct is the best kind of correct, after all.

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I don’t know what’s correct and I don’t care, but I do find this topic entertaining.

90% of what I know is from random snippets from novels I read when I was a kid. I’m pretty sure I got that one from Edgar Pangborn’s Davy.

And yet I can’t remember what I had for breakfast yesterday…

I feel disturbed. One of those biscuits is wrong. Could you fix it please?

The word “linguistic” is also an adjective meaning “of or relating to language”. Thus “linguistic transgressions” means “transgressions having to do with language”.

Stet.

And I’ll see you in circle eight.

Seventh Circle:

Using Emojis To Sum Up Feelings or Events
That Are Way Too Complicated for Emojis To Sum Up

Tenth circle:
Adding an S to words that are already plural

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Easy, now. No one’s trying to get your goat… uhhh… fig newtons. :wink:

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Peckish. So hand them over and nobody gets nibbled on.

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People. OCD is a very specific mental illness. It is not merely a need for order or neatness.

Using it in that manner can make it harder for sufferers to get their condition taken seriously. This isn’t a grammar rant.

This is one of the ways OCD can manifest. (TW: mental illness and attempted suicide).

Jokes about stacks of fig newtons aren’t funny when talking about a mental illness that can literally kill.

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