On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Philip Hart wrote: #> a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel #> [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] #> #> #Southerner: "Mornin'. What're y'all up to?" #> #Northerner: "In the civilized north, we do not end sentences in a #> #preposition." #> #Southerner: *thinks* "So, what're y'all up to, asshole?" #> #> In Latin you couldn't. In English you can. I agree with the Southerner #> here. # # #This part of the text prepared by hand? No, just appended in the PS. Anyway, is it the case that this #is a hard rule in Latin? The word order is seriously flexible, esp. in #poetry. I guess prepositions aren't separable from their nouns and must #proceed them, hence no final prepositions - maybe someone can find an precede #exception though in Horace or Vergil. Actually, I think they can move around a lot in poetry. But that doesn't say anything about prose, including conversation. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]