Miscellaneous

This blog?s official position on split infinitives is that they?re okay. The Star Trek catch phrase ? ?to boldly go? ? is A-okay with us. But please, please don?t use your freedom from the no-split-infinitives superstition to write a sentence like this:

Is it kosher for a law enforcement agency to, pursuant to a lawfully granted search warrant, search your Gmail account without telling you?

I found this on, of all places, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog. As my high-school Spanish and Latin teacher, Fr. Gregor, would say, ?Et tu, Brute?? The problem isn?t the split; it?s that the split is a chasm ? a seven-word something-or-other phrase interrupting another phrase.