"whom"

Feb. 6th, 2005 09:25 am
yesthattom: (Default)
[personal profile] yesthattom
http://www.qwantz.com/20050203.html
I have to remember this phrase for when the grammar nazis berate me:
Is “whom” a necessary English construction? Its role as object is already indicated by syntax.

Date: 2005-02-06 08:50 am (UTC)
beowabbit: (Default)
From: [personal profile] beowabbit
The same, of course, is true of “I/me”, “he/him”, “she/her”, “we/us”, and “they/them”. So which set shall us get rid of, the subject forms or the object forms?

[livejournal.com profile] beowabbit, who doesn’t care in the least about the distinction between “who” and “whom”, but will take any opportunity to be silly

Date: 2005-02-06 09:20 am (UTC)
jss: (badger)
From: [personal profile] jss
And while we're at it, we don't need the apostrophe in "its" ever, since its obvious from context what you mean, after all. And we can do away with the letter C sinse it kan be replased with K or S as nessessary!

Date: 2005-02-06 09:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lediva.livejournal.com
Right! The bolor supplement!

Date: 2005-02-06 11:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] docstrange.livejournal.com
And kan get rid of present tense of verb 'to be' also, sinse implied by kontext, too.

Date: 2005-02-06 02:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hammercock.livejournal.com
Not to menshun the letter "x," sinse it kan be represented by "ks" instead. "Kontekst." Whee! Eliminate mor unnesessary letters! Or should that be "letterz"? Or should we eliminate "z" also?

Date: 2005-02-06 04:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dossy.livejournal.com
Eventually, this comment thread will produce Ebonics. Or Shakespeare. Wait, that wasn't meant to be a racist comment ...

Date: 2005-02-06 07:34 pm (UTC)
ext_86356: (Default)
From: [identity profile] qwrrty.livejournal.com
Bah! "They" is already all-but-legitimate as a first-person-singular pronoun, and within 50 years "whom" will be listed as "obsolete." Ignore the pagan disbelievers!

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