Timeline for "Whom" or "who" and replies to such questions
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| May 21, 2012 at 17:01 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | @JeffSahol I love doing battle with ignorant grammar harpies. Their very existence is a blight upon the English language. They should be vociferously vanquished wherever they may be found, to put an end to the immense damage they do. They know nothing, and delight in showing off their poor education for all the world to ridicule. Shooting fish in a barrel gives more sport, though. | |
| May 21, 2012 at 16:28 | comment | added | JeffSahol | Where "more correct" means "less likely to call down the grammar harpies". | |
| May 21, 2012 at 16:20 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | I rather strongly disagree with any notion of “more correct” here for the “To whom are you speaking?” case. It very much is not “more correct”. | |
| May 21, 2012 at 15:06 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Even more natural would be "They're our students' (notebooks)". | |
| May 21, 2012 at 13:51 | history | answered | JeffSahol | CC BY-SA 3.0 |