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Sacré bleu! A non-trekkie! The split infinitive in question is: "To boldly go where no one has gone before."
Excuse-moi, mais je SUIS une Trekkie!! In fact, monsieur,
I am old enough to have seen the original episodes when they
were new, and in which it was "where no MAN has gone before".
("Harrumph--people expectin' me to follow the twists of their danged convoluted minds", she grumbled to herself as she marched away.)
Oh! New question! Not being male, I cannot officially qualify as a geezer. (Y'all followin' my train of thought here, or did I derail everyone?) Being a female of crusty
temperament, am I then a geez-ette?
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