On Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 9:18:17 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 2:46:01 PM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> > On 2016-09-28 12:17 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> > > On 9/27/2016 6:01 PM, graham wrote:
> > >> On 9/27/2016 1:44 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Perhaps he was. A sad reality is that just about every grammar police
> > >>> post I have seen online has contained grammatical errors that were just
> > >>> as bad as the one about which they were complaining.
> > >>
> > >> :-) I'll bet you typed the the last part of that sentence very
> > >> carefully, to avoid ending it with a preposition:-)
> > >
> > > LOL Oldie but goodie joke:
> > >
> > > A rather snooty woman was sitting next to another woman in an airport.
> > > The second woman asked the first, "Where are you from?" The snooty
> > > woman replied, "I'm FROM a place where we don't end a sentence with a
> > > preposition." The second woman thought for a moment, then said, "Okay,
> > > where are you from, bitch?"
> >
> >
> > I was trying to make a point about a common error and being careful not
> > to fall the same trap into.
>
> If ending a sentence with a preposition was good enough for Winston Churchill,
> it's good enough for me. I generally try to avoid it, but I won't tie myself
> into knots over it.
>
> Cindy Hamilton

It is something, up with which, civilized people will not put.