Re: CHAT: which's

John Cowan wrote:

> 3)      Occasionally native speakers use it as a replacement for the standard
>         possessive relative pronoun "whose" (which is just an eccentric-but-
>         standardized spelling of "who" + "'s") when the antecedent is
>         inanimate.  "Who" is never applied to inanimates, and there is a
>         Sprachgefuehl against applying "whose" to inanimates either,
>         notwithstanding it is standard.
What's a Sprachgefuehl?

Tristan.

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