Re: Bostonites. *ZAP*

On 3/25/99, Nik Taylor wrote: "I'm also referring to archaisms like "whom".
 For the standard language, the most logical guide, it seems to me, would
be the language of the educated people. Since even educated people rarely
use "whom", what's the purpose in calling that part of the standard?"

Alright, this might get me labelled and flamed again, but I'll go ahead
anyway ... (8-0)
Actually, I use "whom" quite a bit ... so do many people I know. But that's
another one of those <pedantic> </pedantic> statements, since most English
speakers don't use it. I also avoid using hanging participles, and I think
both of them originate in the massive numbers of long papers I wrote at
Harvard. At first you do okay, but then you forget about how to properly
cite and look it up, and soon you are curious what other things you aren't
doing right, and you end up reading that little red book and using the
forms properly in your papers, and then in bleeds into your speech, and
then: voila! A prig is born.

BB

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