[ba-poker] grammar (was: RGPM: Moderator Selection - Call for Volunteers)

[Michael Wiesenberg <queueing(deleted the rest)>]

At 04:48 PM on Friday, 3/19/2004 -0800, David S. Heller wrote:
> Andy:  You're a brilliant guy, and I love you, man.  But...
>
> I write for a living.  I'm right, the dinosaurs are wrong, and normally you
> don't use a preposition to end a sentence with.  <Note use of irony there>
> It leads to exactly this kind of awkward, funny sounding phrase that just
> needs to be repaired.  You can use a preposition to end a sentence when it
> is absolutely necessary.  As Churchill once observed:  "That is the kind of
> pedantry up with which I shall not put."

I write for a living too, and there's a difference between what is 
acceptable in spoken language and written.  (And what is distributed in 
mailing lists and appears on many Web sites fits into a third, often 
illiterate, category.)