For those who boldly violate the Prime Directive by trying to enrich the general public's understanding of English grammar and thus change the planetary culture, each tiny triumph is something to treasure. And we had one about a month ago. The Economist announced (April 28, 2018) that the new edition of its style guide would no longer proscribe the “split infinitive.”
I like to think discussion on Lingua Franca helped to stiffen the magazine's resolve on this issue (see this 2016 post, following up this one two years earlier, and this one two years before that).
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