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trump to, well, everyone it seems:
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Please, please, this is supposed to be a happy presidency!
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It’s “who child-raped whom.”🙄
I know but the original quote is who killed who, so figured accuracy beats grammar.
Probably deliberate as he has a Yorkshire accent, associated with working-class people.
Absolutely deliberate. Monty Python was mostly Oxford and Cambridge grads who darn well knew how to use whom.
"Whom" is on its way out because there is no loss of understanding whatsoever if you just say "who" instead.
I don't think dropping a single letter from a word qualifies for this meme.
It's the same idea, we understand exactly what he's saying, 0 impairment of understanding etc.
There's no reason for a lot of stuff; why do verbs like have and be require different conjugations when the subject is in the sentence? Why bother pluralizing words when we can usually figure it out from context etc.
Yup, you're right. This particular word is especially egregious, though. It's a holdover from Old English, and the fact that it conveys absolutely no extra information when used instead of who shows that.
says whom???
It's still used in formal speech and writing, but everyday use has been steadily declining. Even as something of a stickler for grammar, I find it rather pointless.