On which I expound

This is the sort of tortured language that results when a writer tries to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition:

The writer for Yahoo! Movies gets points for knowing to use whom (and not who), but loses a few for capitalizing princess.

 

Raising Kayne

It’s a common misspelling of Kanye West’s first name, and this time it appears on Yahoo! News‘ “The Envoy”:

But a more interesting issue to raise is the writer’s oddly worded description of the Estelle/Kanye song. Why the tortured phrasing? Was it to avoid ending a clause with a preposition — as if that were a grammatical error? Why didn’t she try the more direct (and correct): ”that most American viewers are familiar with”?

Tortured language for the sake of a myth

In a misguided attempt to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition, a writer on the Yahoo! front page creates one of the most tortured, twisted, and tormented captions imaginable:

People, it is a myth that you should never end a sentence with a preposition.

In what do you believe?

When I read this question on Yahoo! Answers, I was struck by its awkward wording: 

Editors occasionally “touch up” questions that are featured on “Best of Answers.” So I checked the original question to see what was really asked. To my surprise, I discovered that the question actually was correct:

It seems that the editor reworked the question to avoid ending it with a preposition. I can only surmise that the editor holds fast to the myth that you should never, ever, ever end a sentence with a preposition. Is that a ‘rule” you adhere to?