> > > Oh, and incidentally, is it just be, or is there a misplaced negative here somewhere?
> > >
> > > "Women have to first prove that they act indistinguishable from sentient beings in order to be legally considered sentient beings."
> > >
> > > Or are you actually passionately defending my gender and I've badly misjudged you, in an emotional, irrational, hysterical way?
> > >
> > > te "emotive" ach
> >
> > No, but I do spy a split infinitive...
> >
> > Ghar"let the grammar wars begin"lane
>
> That sentence should have read "indistinguishably from" but otherwise I think it's fine.
>
> Anyone who has a problem with split infinitives has not really studied English grammar beyond grade school. They are likely the same sort of people who believe it's ungrammatical to begin sentences with conjunctions or end them with prepositions.
>
> Sadly, many of those people are teaching English.
>
> Stephen

And as I have said before, it's OK to begin and end a sentence with "and."

In my opinion, a preposition is a good thing to begin or end a sentence with.

But I'm still wondering if there is such a word as "unindistinguishably."
Howard