Grammar rock

Listening to the radio this morning, I heard yet another infinitive unthinkingly split, and started wondering if anyone other than a couple of junior high school grammar teachers really cares about not splitting infinitives (except in certain extraordinary circumstances). I think it's gotten to the point that it sounds right to people most of the time to split them; putting the modifier elsewhere now sounds "wrong."

And I wondered about the poor forlorn subjunctive, something I like to use appropriately (it came clear when I took French), but perhaps I have become a grammar fuddy-duddy on this issue?

I still can't abide some of the misspellings I see and am not going to stop being bothered by them.
At least I call it skim milk, I suppose.
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Swag

Email from the head of the department: meet at 2 in the big conference rooms. Very mysterious.

The meeting: speeches of thanks, marking partway through the production of 7 math books at once (do not try this at home), appreciation from the field and the higher-ups; snacks (non-kosher, of course); and a t-shirt, green on white, a dragon (taken from the last DK spread in geometry), with a background of mathy symbols, some cute rah-rah phrases about teamwork below. Still, I'll take it. Strangely, the only sizes were S-M-L. There are guys (well, and me) who would've taken XL...