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Originally posted by NashBama:
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And would you be so kind as to cite some kind of authoritative source for your criticism?
Sure, me.
Look at the sentence, your first few words are saying something suits you just fine. The next part of the sentence is describing what that is. The thing that suits you just fine is "to not be bothered". The way you wrote it fragments the sentence and makes it confusing.
I don't rip people for their grammar, just you because you pretend to be the grammar police. You're not better than anyone else, my goal is simply to remind you of that.
Just as I suspected, you offer no authoritative source at all to back up your ASSertion, choosing rather to put yourself forward as allegedly authoritative.
Stating your opinion is no substitute for citing an authoritative source. What I posted was entirely clear and unambiguous. Your "improvement" produced no real improvement at all and added a split infinitive, "to not be."
If you, instead of Shakespeare, had written Hamlet, I suppose that famous line would have been, "To be or to not be, that is the question...."
All you have done is to state an alternative that you prefer and a flawed one at that. Be advised that your preference does not constitute a principle.
You have indeed reminded me of one thing, but not the thing you intended. You have reminded me that arrogant, self-appointed grammar sharps like you are ill-advised to get pedantic with me unless they know their stuff and can back it up. You strike out on both counts.