Proms Fantasies

[jayne lee wilson]

Split-infinitive - tsk, tsk.

Those of us with no Latin and even less Greek have spent half a lifetime lying awake at night wondering why this is so wrong...

[Barbirollians]

Halle/Pappano

Mozart; Overture, Marriage of Figaro
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 : Argerich
Mahler ; Das Lied von der Erde - Coote/Gerhaher

[David-G]

"Belgrove's proposal of Koechlin's Les Bandar Log is one I strongly go along with"

Split-infinitive - tsk, tsk.

I can't see an infinitive!

[ahinton]

I can't see an infinitive!

Nor I; that's because there isn't one. My suggestion to the accuser? To boldly go and check wot one of them really am.

[Northender]

I really think this is not a matter to flippantly discuss in this way.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I really think this is not a matter to flippantly discuss in this way.

"To boldly go" = a split infinitive (if you believe in that sort of thing in English where it's "split" anyway).
"I boldly go" = perfectly satisfactory English.

[Beef Oven]

Nor I; that's because there isn't one. My suggestion to the accuser? To boldly go and check wot one of them really am.

Accusor to tosser: my excuse is that it was late and I'd had a few! I am now sober and no longer an accuser

[cloughie]

Accusor to tosser: my excuse is that it was late and I'd had a few! I am now sober and no longer an accuser

There's something vaguely Churchillian there!

[Pabmusic]

..."I boldly go" = perfectly satisfactory English.

Hear, hear! It's never been a rule of English grammar.

[amateur51]

There's something vaguely Churchillian there!

Oh yes!

[Northender]

On which topic ... has anybody else been watching David Starkey's excellent (IMHO) Channel 4 series on The Churchills, drawing telling parallels between the early 18th and early 21st centuries?

[Beef Oven]

There's something vaguely Churchillian there!

that nasty war-monger

[amateur51]

that nasty war-monger

You referring to the motor insurance premium wars, Beefy?

[Beef Oven]

You referring to the motor insurance premium wars, Beefy?

[Beef Oven]

On which topic ... has anybody else been watching David Starkey's excellent (IMHO) Channel 4 series on The Churchills, drawing telling parallels between the early 18th and early 21st centuries?

I didn't think anyone watched Channel 4 any more. In fact I didn't realise that it was still in existence. In any case, it was always a little too racey and communistic for my palate.