Comments on: More evidence of the death of “whom” http://dumpendebat.net/2009/11/01/death-of-whom/ A sniff in the kortevar, that what you cry for, yeled? A prert up the cull, a prang on the dumpendebat? Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:16:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: TheMailPO http://dumpendebat.net/2009/11/01/death-of-whom/comment-page-1/#comment-10845 TheMailPO Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:33:38 +0000 http://dumpendebat.net/?p=737#comment-10845 I cannot help that hearing it used improperly makes my skin crawl. I wish I could. Not having 'whom' would just feel so wrong. I do not wish to imply that my grammar is beyond reproach. Quite simply, I enjoy the rules of our language and wish that we would follow them more often. For that matter, I wish IT would follow them more often as well! ('i' before 'e', indeed?!) Also, I find myself in a perpetual state of redaction with regard to ending a sentence with a preposition. Often, the rewording thereof makes me sound kind of pretentious, but, I find, I prefer that to the alternative. ...and we should bring back thou. Without which I tend to revert to my southern roots for distinction... y'all! I cannot help that hearing it used improperly makes my skin crawl. I wish I could. Not having ‘whom’ would just feel so wrong. I do not wish to imply that my grammar is beyond reproach. Quite simply, I enjoy the rules of our language and wish that we would follow them more often. For that matter, I wish IT would follow them more often as well! (‘i’ before ‘e’, indeed?!)

Also, I find myself in a perpetual state of redaction with regard to ending a sentence with a preposition. Often, the rewording thereof makes me sound kind of pretentious, but, I find, I prefer that to the alternative.

…and we should bring back thou. Without which I tend to revert to my southern roots for distinction… y’all!

]]> By: dumpendebat http://dumpendebat.net/2009/11/01/death-of-whom/comment-page-1/#comment-9756 dumpendebat Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:52:41 +0000 http://dumpendebat.net/?p=737#comment-9756 And the same to you, Stram. And the same to you, Stram.

]]> By: Stram http://dumpendebat.net/2009/11/01/death-of-whom/comment-page-1/#comment-9713 Stram Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:32:39 +0000 http://dumpendebat.net/?p=737#comment-9713 Merry Christmas, Filius! <i>'Stram'</i> Merry Christmas, Filius!

‘Stram’

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