Re: "To whom"
| From: | Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 13:51 |
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--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@M...> wrote:
> And note, saying something is "colloquial" or "non-standard"
> *isn't* an insult; saying it's "old-fashioned", "tortured", and
> "pretentious" is.
Indeed.
On another side note, if the dropping of whom should be considered
the standard just because people do it all the time, then maybe
"could of" and "definatly" should also be considered the correct
forms, and everything else be decried as arrogance.
-- Christian Thalmann
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