D Programming Language Specification ebook

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Jul 4 18:24:28 PDT 2011


On 7/4/11 6:53 PM, Torarin wrote:
> 2011/7/5 Andrei Alexandrescu<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org>:
>
>> It's "whom" :o).
>>
>> Andrei
>>
>
> Are you sure? The "people" in "people ... are complete idiots" are the
> subjects of the sentence, so surely the subjective case of who is
> appropriate?
>
> Torarin

Yes, "whom" was wrong there, but that was the punchline: someone who is 
at the same time pretentious enough and dumb enough to say "whom" when 
"who" is actually correct, is the same kin as someone who equates price 
with quality.

I know, explained jokes suck...


Andrei


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