D Programming Language Specification ebook
Andrei Alexandrescu
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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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