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Skriven 2006-10-13 13:47:08 av kruegerb76@hotmail.com
Ärende: Re: Ron Howard's Changeling project falls through?
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From: kruegerb76@hotmail.com


Amy Guskin wrote:
> >>On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:54:09 -0400, Rob Perkins wrote
> > I challenge you to a grammar-off.
> >
> > It can be either "from those to WHOM the NBS pays frequent visits," or
> > it can be "from those WHOM the the NBS frequently visits," but it cannot
> > be "from those who the NBS frequently visits," because that third one
> > conflates NBS and the object of the visit; "who" is a subject pronoun.
> > "Whom" belongs to the direct objects or prepositional objects.
> >
> > The fact that we let it slide in sentences like "Who do you serve? Who
> > do you trust?" is out of acknowledgement of common speech patterns. Sort
> > of like never noticing any longer that "John went out with Mary and I"
> > is cringe-worthy.
> >
> > Dontcha think? Prove me wrong! <<
>
> Eh, I'm not that wedded to whether it's who or whom, so I'm happy to let you
> have this one.  But as I said in my reply to Barbara, in almost every case,
> it's accepted that "who" may be used in place of "whom" (although not the
> reverse).  Probably that's grown out of usage, though, so you may be
> strictly, by-the-(older)-book correct.

Ah, but that's the rub when it comes to this stuff: if language
_didn't_  grow, it would be useless, wouldn't it?

I'm pretty sure Rob is correct if you want to get technical.  That's
what I thought you did with your nitpicking, though.  LOL

Here's another question for you language lot:

eons ago when the dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was a child, the
word "an" instead of "a" would be used in front of certain "h-" words.

Like was was trained to say:

"an honorable decision"
"an hyperbola is what we're graphing now"
"an historical note"

I am seeing in common usage now, the use of "a" instead of "an".

Does that make me wrong now?  LOL

Should it be "an historical note" or "a historical note"?  Or will
either do, like the who and whom thing?

Have I mentioned lately that I'm soooooooooo glad that I teach
mathematics.  :p


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