Re: [boost] Final Getting Started Guide

From: Martin Bonner (martin.bonner_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-02 15:36:48

(Excuse HTML, I'm using Outlook Web Access to get this in quickly.)
 
Edward Diener wrote:
> Actually I believe the grammatically correct English is:
>
> "This is a sketch of the directory structure up with which you will end."
Poor
>
> but I think one can get away with this:
>
> "This is a sketch of the directory structure with which you will end up."
Better
>
> I was humorously taught in school ( attributed to Winston Churchill ):
>
> "Putting a preposition at the end of a sentence is something up with
> which I will not put."
>
> but perhaps we can relax Churchill's dictum for the sake of Boost <g>.
 
You were taught the wrong way round.  The original attributed to Churchill by Gowers was  "This is the sort of English [rule] up with which I will not put." (Elegantly showing /why/ the rule is bad).  
 
However see http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/churchill.html for a discussion of the quotation (Churchill's authorship seems to be an urban legend).  (See also http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.html <http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.html>  for a discussion of ending sentences with prepositions and other non-errors.)
 
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From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] on behalf of Edward Diener
Sent: Tue 02/01/2007 20:02
To: boost_at_[hidden]
Subject: Re: [boost] Final Getting Started Guide
Javier Estrada wrote:
> I missed this typo in
> http://www.boost-consulting.com/boost/more/getting_started/windows.html#
> the-boost-distribution:
>
>       This is is a sketch of the directory structure you'll end up
> with:
>
> Should read:
>       This is a sketch of the directory structure you'll end up with:
Actually I believe the grammatically correct English is:
"This is a sketch of the directory structure up with which you will end."
but I think one can get away with this:
"This is a sketch of the directory structure with which you will end up."
I was humorously taught in school ( attributed to Winston Churchill ):
"Putting a preposition at the end of a sentence is something up with
which I will not put."
but perhaps we can relax Churchill's dictum for the sake of Boost <g>.
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