you guys are smart and shit right? this is /lit related because

bump English is seccond language. film was very funny. are American teens really like this?

"In" is a preposition.

There is a grammatical "rule" that states "the final word in a sentence or question should not be a preposition".

It's an outdated rule and is not observed very often anymore.

Bork's second line is him trying to figure out how to rephrase the sentence so that it doesn't end in a preposition.

It's a variation on the Churchillism “This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.”

It's also never been a rule, it's just dumbasses confusing Latin grammar rules with English.

>>8347816
wow English is confusing. I thought what Bork first said was good?

>>8347705

>are American teens really like this?

Yes.

>butthead and beavis in america.
>butthead and beavis

>>8347854
It is. We have phrasal verbs that can have a preposition as a particle (put in, bring up etc) and don't need a direct object (in this case whacking off).

There are also prepositional verbs that must have a direct object, the particles stay together but through inversion can have the prepositional particle at the end of a sentence (this is what is happening here, the were in that guy's camper). Another example: that's something I can get behind.

>>8347712
It's never been a rule. Just something that some dudes back in the day tried to make a rule because you can't end with a preposition in Latin.

another question. why then is this joke funny? because Fleming is old?

>>8347915
It's supposed to be humorous because Fleming responds to Bork's question regarding an obscene happening with an unexpected statement asking him to please correct his grammar because of his official position