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editors, “to go boldly where no man has gone before,” which immediately clashes with the rhythm and structure of ordinary English. In fact, this prescriptive rule
was based on a clumsy analogy with Latin where you can’t splint an infinitive because it’s a single word, as in facary to do. Julius Caesar couldn’t have split an infinitive
if he wanted to. That rule was translated literally over into English where it really should not apply. Another famous prescriptive rule is that,
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