JAD: Are you saying the buzzard is correct in the 2nd panel? Go to the back of the class! The crow is right, in American, British, or any other correct English.
(On the other hand, I’m a big believer in allowing languages to evolve, and I think English would not lose much if “whom” withered away in the future. After all, we are none the poorer for losing “thee, thou, and thine”. And a rough parallel to eliminating “whom” was when the dative case absorbed the accusative to become the modern objective case and dative “him” replaced the accusative word “hin”. Now if only we could get rid of those awful GH spellings.)
Do pretentious owls say “hoooom”?
JAD: Are you saying the buzzard is correct in the 2nd panel? Go to the back of the class! The crow is right, in American, British, or any other correct English.
(On the other hand, I’m a big believer in allowing languages to evolve, and I think English would not lose much if “whom” withered away in the future. After all, we are none the poorer for losing “thee, thou, and thine”. And a rough parallel to eliminating “whom” was when the dative case absorbed the accusative to become the modern objective case and dative “him” replaced the accusative word “hin”. Now if only we could get rid of those awful GH spellings.)