He's not full of shit, actually. He's pretty progressive on language change. He used who/whom as an example of word-shortening as the natural evolution of language. I just happen to think it was a bad example. Though, when I pressed the issue, I was the *only* person in the class that raised my hand as knowing/using the difference.

But then again, no one today knew who William F. Buckley, Jr. was--and even worse, they didn't know what the National Review was.

What is our world coming to?

NOBODY does that any more? And he's an English prof??

Seriously, WTF? Maybe not a lot of people know it well, but that's seriously bizarre.

But then again, no one today knew who William F. Buckley, Jr. was--and even worse, they didn't know what the National Review was.

They need Family Ties dvds, stat.

Seriously, WTF? Maybe not a lot of people know it well, but that's seriously bizarre.

Yeah, I call bullshit on this professor.

but no one does that anymore.

I do, too.

Barb, I'm showing up on your door step and letting you cook. Scones or banana bread sounds amazing.

Sorry, vw, I didn't intend to impugn his entire being with my comment about this one issue. I should have been more specific and less vulgar. I do agree that on that particular issue, however, he's way off - the rest of your classmates notwithstanding.

I know you would, Barb. If only MM and the transporter... ah, well.

I should have been more specific and less vulgar.

Oh, I didn't take offense. I'm sorry if I came off that way. I was just being vulgar back :).

Oh, good. I didn't mean to be all snotty about someone you very well may like! I was irrationally, long-distance insulted by his assertion or something. (Hey, I said irrationally!)

Heh. He is my absolute favorite prof. This is the fourth class I've taken with him. He's my adviser. And, he was one of my thesis readers (by request). But, that doesn't mean he can't be wrong!

He's not full of shit, actually. He's pretty progressive on language change. He used who/whom as an example of word-shortening as the natural evolution of language. I just happen to think it was a bad example. Though, when I pressed the issue, I was the *only* person in the class that raised my hand as knowing/using the difference.

It is falling out of common usage rather quickly, and although most Buffistas I know use it, the majority of educated people I know don't.

I use it when feeling like dressing up my language in formal wear, but my spoken tongue is pretty well business casual. Of course, I'm also a descriptivist rebel who merrily splits infinitives and ends sentences with prepositions and spits in the face of the Latinate rules shoved willy-nilly onto a Germanic language by stick in the mud twerps with some sort of mental hard-on for a dead tongue.

Not that I have strong opinions on the matter.