Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/12/84; site mit-hermes.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-hermes!jpexg From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick) Newsgroups: net.nlang,net.jokes Subject: Re: Re: Re: Grammatical Rules Message-ID: <2289@mit-hermes.ARPA> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 16:02:23 EST Article-I.D.: mit-herm.2289 Posted: Thu Feb 7 16:02:23 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 07:51:02 EST References: <34@gitpyr.UUCP> <328@scc.UUCP> <259@psivax.UUCP><537@unc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: The MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA Lines: 11 Xref: watmath net.nlang:2552 net.jokes:10712 > > I think Winston Churchill said it best. When told that you should > not end a sentence with a preposition, he replied: > > "This is something up with which I shall not put." You've not only misquoted him, you've done it in such a way as to destroy the whole point of what he was saying. He actually said: "[Dangling prepositions] are something up with which I shall not put."