To boldly split infinitives -again.

Some of you who have monitered my blog output on a more than casual basis may recall my grumbling about prescriptivist gramarians on various occasions and recall that I generally beleive that peple should be allowed to use their own dialect without someone else chewing them up because some of its grammatical rules differ from theirs [generally the prescriptivist is a 'Queen's English' speaker looking down on people with regional dialects in their active usage]. Well whilst I am strongly in favour of tolerance of dialectal difference; this should not be mistaken for saying that native speakers of a language never make syntactic mistakes. If you want to see how this is possible then read this article. If you've had enough already leave it, sit down and at least think: 'next time I hear/ read a differnt form of English I shall first try to work out what the actual grammatical rules it uses are rather than claiming or pretending that it has broken mine." Then the world will be fractionally happier and wiser place.
"Speakers will sometimes speak or write in a way that exhibits errors (errors that they themselves would agree, if asked later, were just slip-ups); and linguists will sometimes state correctness conditions in a way that incorporates errors in what is claimed about the language (errors that they themselves would agree, if asked later, were just mistaken hypotheses about the language). "
Language Log: "Everything is correct" versus "nothing is relevant":