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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:59:02 -0700
Subject: Re: [OT] Piling of prepositions (was: Namespaces in functions vs classes)
From: geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Dave Angel <davea@ieee.org> wrote:
> On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
>>
>> "Rhodri James"<rhodri@wildebst.demon.co.uk> =A0writes:
>>
>>> Language abuse: it's not just Python. A donation of just $5 will keep
>>> a programmer in prepositions for a month. $50 will supply enough
>>> articles to keep a small company understandable for over a year. With
>>> your generous help, we can beat this scourge!
>>
>> I lately lost a preposition
>> It hid, I thought, beneath my chair
>> And angrily I cried, =93Perdition!
>> Up from out of in under there.=94
>>
>> Correctness is my vade mecum,
>> And straggling phrases I abhor,
>> And yet I wondered, =93What should he come
>> Up from out of in under for?=94
>>
>> =97Morris Bishop, in the _New Yorker_, 1947-09-27
>>
>> <URL:http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/gowerse/complete/cha=
p905.htm>
>>
>
> Ending a sentence with a preposition is one aberration up with which I wi=
ll
> not put.
>
> With is a lousy word to start or end a sentence with.
>
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 origins unknown

With respect to the first, it is (possibly mis)attributed to Winston
Churchill. The second I've heard but don't recall where from.

Geremy Condra