| ▲ | dingaling 5 days ago |
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| ▲ | jaennaet 5 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| This is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put |
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| ▲ | ash_091 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I spent a solid ten minutes researching this and couldn't find any suggestion that there's any problem with the title. Could you explain how it's ungrammatical? |
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| ▲ | cgh 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | There’s an outdated rule in English that states you shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition. It dates back to a time when writers applied Latin’s grammatical rules to English. It’s mostly ignored now. | | |
| ▲ | tomsmeding 4 days ago | parent [-] | | But... it's a title, not a sentence. Many book titles are even a single word, which is even less a sentence. Why would a grammatical convention for sentences apply to book titles? | | |
| ▲ | cgh 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Heck if I know. All I know is I am a lot more worked up about the misuse of “less” when the correct word is “fewer”. | | |
| ▲ | robocat 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Whom would care fewer? | |
| ▲ | jamiek88 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Which itself was simply the preference of a spinster who wrote a grammar book. English has no rules like that, only preferences. |
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| ▲ | marcusb 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| They did, they just understood they were editing English not Latin. |
