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Subject:Re: Capitalization in lists From:<neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:36:28 -0600
---- Janice Gelb suggested:
> As others have said, this is largely a matter
> of style. However, I do want to mention in case
> your docs are translated that our localization
> people have told us not to break infinitives
> across a list introduction because many languages
> do not use that construct and it can therefore
> cause difficulties.
On the other hand, the translators or the translation software should be able to handle the construction. That English does not use the terse and beautiful ablative absolute construction does not reflect badly upon its employment by Roman writers, nor does it, /mirabile visu,/ place any impediment onto the translation of Latin into English.
Personally I object to the construction "use to" because it is so easily confounded with the colloquial "used to" which is sometimes used to construct a variety of past tense, as I used to do. Er, I mean, formerly did.
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