You spend your whole life worrying about split infinitives...

style
register
word order
syntax
punctuation
coherence
cohesion

...Thinking: "What would E., T. or J. say here to make it sound nice?"

                                         
                                                                                ...then you get to the EU...


...and you just want to cry! Ce n'est pas possible!

William (Shakespeare), William (Blake), Walt (Whitman), John (Donne), I am sorry.

France, Ivan, Dragotin, Ciril...I am equally sorry.

                                                                                It's a sad world for language lovers...