We chucked out most grammatical rules during the formation of our language, so we - or some of us - tend to try to be protective of the few we have left.  :)  English has a kinship with German, since it was formed as a baby talk version of two proto Germanic languages.  That's probably why we threw out most gender rules along the way.  

OTOH, there is precedent for split infinitives in English, since we tend to put colour before object, unlike most other Indo-European languages.  That's a bit silly from a technical standpoint but then, saying "the tractor green" or "the balloon red" sounds daft, too.

Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.

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