Re: New to the list

On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 06:30:33PM -0500, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > (pedants like me who use "whom," things like "whose," etc. remain)
>
> Since when has "whose" been pedantic?
[snip]

Since colloquial English started using "who" for all other occurrences of
the relative pronoun... Not sure about your particular dialect, but I know
that most of the people around me do this.

Though, I'd think "whom" is more pedantic than "whose", because "whose"
still gets used a lot, but "whom" is almost completely replaced by "who"
in less academic circles.


T