"First off, the avoid-terminal-prepositions rule is the invention of one Fr. R. Lowth, an eighteenth-century British preacher and indurate pedant who did things like spend scores of pages arguing for hath over the trendy and degenerate has." — David Foster Wallace http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave... via Eivind's thread http://goo.gl/TqvXQX
"The a.-t.-p. rule is antiquated and stupid and only the most ayatolloid SNOOT takes it seriously. Garner himself calls the rule 'stuffy' and lists all kinds of useful constructions like 'the man you were listening to' that we'd have to discard or distort if we really enforced it."
- Victor Ganata