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# Most browsers will remove double spaces in HTML I think
This was a point of contention on a wiki I contribute to lately - the argument was that all those double spaces take up space in the database but contribute nothing to the layout of the page and are therefore pointless

(, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 10:36, archived)
# huzzah! This!
(, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 10:56, archived)
# But surely in printed media they provide the eye with a guide as to the length of the sentence in question, allowing the mind to passively prepare for subclauses and the like in order to make better sense of the passage of text?
(, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 10:59, archived)
# Gah! Here we are talking syntax and I've only bloody gone and split an infinitive :/
(, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 11:05, archived)
# I see nothing wrong with split infinitives.
Going out of your way to avoid them just sounds forced to me.
(, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 11:08, archived)
# Not splitting infinitives comes from Latin
where the infinitive is one word so can't be split anyway.

There's absolutely no reason you shouldn't split inifinitives in English, although it's often somewhat ugly and so best avoided on that basis, it also sometimes aids clarity.
(, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 11:09, archived)
# Ha ha, indeed.
(, Thu 22 Jul 2010, 13:32, archived)