Timeline for "What am I" vs. "who am I"
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| Jul 20, 2013 at 8:36 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | My comment was in reply to Trevor’s statement that ‘who’ would not work. If I left my dinner to vanish in a room with four animals, I would hypothesise, “Who ate my dinner?” as well. | |
| Jul 20, 2013 at 1:43 | comment | added | AthomSfere | @JanusBahsJacquet but Spot ate the homework is not anthropomorphizing. Similarly, if you left your dinner in a room of 4 different animals Lets say a giraffe, a dog, a cat and an elephant and you were asked to hypothesize: a) Who ate the dinner vs b)What at the dinner... | |
| Jul 20, 2013 at 0:41 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | If you anthropomorphise an animal enough to enable it to use a first-person pronoun (i.e., give it speech), them you anthropomorphise it enough to be referable to as ‘who’. | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 15:54 | comment | added | AthomSfere | @TrevorD "Who ate my homework? Spot the dog did." is correct and is for an animal not a person. | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 12:29 | comment | added | TrevorD | -1 "Who" could not work! As @Akshat says, using "who" indicates that you are expecting the answer to be a person - not an animal. | |
| Jul 19, 2013 at 11:42 | history | answered | AthomSfere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |