Part of me can sympathise with those unfortunates who cannot bear a split infinitive – I find my own creepy crawlies in the language jungle
But even at school I just did not get it. It makes no sense to say that they should not be split in English because they are nor split in Latin
Well, of course they’re not – Latin infinitives are just one word
And isn’t it tedious to have to learn all those different inflections - amorabissimissimus, abamerameramer, yeh,yeh, whatever
English had the bright idea of turning an infinitive into two words precisely so that it could be split
So there
