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24 March 2007

Grammar Girl. (Blog and Podcast). I like it.
I definitely need this. Bookmarked!
posted by dodgygeezer 24 March | 09:04
The Word Nerds podcast has become less interesting, for me at least, in the last few months and I could do with some help in grammar, I think.
posted by TheDonF 24 March | 09:13
Nice. I really should pay more attention to my grammar.

PS: Am I the only one who thinks that the site looks like it's from the 90's?
posted by Memo 24 March | 14:31
OK, nobody wants to hear this, but that's horseshit, not grammar. Grammar Girl on who/whom:

Use whom when you are referring to the object of a sentence.

For example, it is, "Whom did you step on?" if you were trying to figure out that I had squished Squiggly*. Similarly, it would be, "Whom do I love?" because you are asking about the object — the target of my love.


Horseshit. "Whom" is used today, if at all, only after prepositions: "To whom am I speaking?" To say "Whom did you step on?" or (god forbid) "Whom do I love?" is to mark yourself not as a supergrammarian but as a hopeless twit. I long for the day when people will be confident enough of their grasp of their own language that they won't waste their time (and in the worst cases money) on quacks like this. If you want serious advice, backed up by actual research, I recommend (as always) the Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage.
posted by languagehat 25 March | 13:47
mmm. that "whom" bit annoyed me as well, but then I second-guessed myself and figured I was wrong. Good to know I wasn't, thanks, languagehat!
posted by gaspode 25 March | 13:50
From whom can I buy that Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Usage? Hm?
posted by taz 25 March | 13:53
Heh. Well, the LibraryThing page has links (in the left-hand column) to Abebooks, Alibris, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and BookFinder.com, among others; here's the page for the original book, and here's the Concise version (which is slightly abridged but also more up-to-date, so probably the better buy).
posted by languagehat 25 March | 14:39
Best Tube information update ever (spotted at Stamford Brook station). || Charlie Bidwell Is Neato!

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