Weird Al's latest video dropped today

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    chris_in_pdx, Jul 14, 2014
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    Love it, and he's releasing one each day for the next 7 days too.
     
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    Was that a Jack Black sighting? lol. I'm trying to watch this video on my stupid Wyse ThinClient w/Citrix shared desktop and it blows. ;)
     
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    Video for Word Crimes (Blurred Lines Parody) is up on his website now


    www.weirdal.com
     
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    That's the best one ever. And the kids won't know that he's mocking the shit out of them because they don't know what any of those words look like in their entirety. I fucking hate shorthand.
     
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    I was right there until the end... "Try your best to not drool" is a split infinitive. Fuck that noise!
     
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    grammar peasant here, could you please try to fix the sentence?
     
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    To drool is an infinitive (expressing the concept of drooling, without tense like had drooled or will drool), and as such is a single module of information that shouldn't be split up. So to do it right, it would be "Try your best not to drool."

    I choose to think that Al's smart enough to know, and that it was a clever bit of trolling about how every post correcting someone's grammar inevitably has a grammar problem in it, in accordance with actual irony.
     
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    There's actually nothing ungrammatical about split infinitives.
     
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    Haha, exactly.
     
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    That's what I thought too.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law
     
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