Hot Dryden on Jonson action

[kestrell]

That is the title acquired along the way by this history of the "never end a sentence with a preposition" debate.
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004454.html
Also, I now like Ben Jonson a lot better, and I am enchanted by the image of Dryden and Jonson getting into a grammar smackdown.

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Indeed.

(Now I'm boggled at the image of you hopping around the internet backwards in time. I'm impressed! I can't keep up with the internet in real time at all!)

[kestrell]

I'm currently reading James Gleick's _A History of Time Travel_, so it's very inspiring...