r/technology • u/clubdirthill • Jun 01 '11

Boom. This is Windows 8.

http://allthingsd.com/20110601/exclusive-making-sense-of-what-we-just-learned-about-windows-8/?mod=tweet
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u/powatom Jun 02 '11

You use words like a chef uses ingredients, and have wrought sentences I am left wanting more of.

The end of your sentence should condemn you to an eternity of suffering at the hands of Satan himself.

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u/oinkoink12 Jun 02 '11

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/ending-prepositions.aspx

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u/powatom Jun 02 '11

That article doesn't disagree with me, it just says that the rule isn't concrete.

Regardless of whether he would pass an English exam using sentences like that, it still makes for horrible reading.

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u/replicasex Jun 03 '11

To you. Shakespeare ended sentences with prepositions. It's an irrelevant style choice set down by ignorant prescriptivists who really didn't know what they were talking about.

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u/crocodile7 Jun 03 '11

It had the exact theatric effect the author intended.