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The Best of Car Talk

#2453: A 50/50/50 Mixture

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Greg from Long Island is pretty sure that his radiator is now holding a mixture of equal parts water, coolant and sealant resulting from his vain attempts to plug up his leaking heater core. Is there any hope for Greg or should he just relocate the cat's litter box to catch the drips? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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Clack the Tappert brothers and we're broadcasting this week from

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the center to defiantly split infinatives here at Kartau Plaza.

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This is sad here I think.

0:50.0

Do do do do do to do the news flash,

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flash, Oxford University Press

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says it's okay to occasionally

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split an infinitive,

0:59.0

like the infinitive Q45?

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No, the I30.

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I mean, I read this article the other day. London, but be,

1:06.0

but, but, writers, London, it is, I look at writers.

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Feel free to split infinatives and don't worry about starting a sentence with but

1:13.6

because some age-old rules of English grammar are just school-room mythology a new

1:18.5

writing guide said the plain English guide to be published by the

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Oxford University press on August 10th,

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they did it already, has raised eyebrows on the more traditional cradles of learning.

1:28.0

So they now say it is okay occasionally and they give some examples and I mean I mean it does make sense actually

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