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18 Jan 2010, 5:12 pm

To feel good is a logical response...Go toward the reward...


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18 Jan 2010, 7:46 pm

I like "whom". I like to answer the telephone by saying, "Is this the person to whom I am speaking?" :)

I also like "whence", "hitherto", and "shall", although those are all words that seem a little odd and/or archaic to Californian ears.

I'm also partial to "odious".



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18 Jan 2010, 7:51 pm

elderwanda wrote:
I like to answer the telephone by saying, "Is this the person to whom I am speaking?"

Lily Tomlin, is that you?



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18 Jan 2010, 8:14 pm

this thread kinda makes me want to facedesk or facewall.

people shouldn't fuss over if someone uses words they don't like. For example ive used thee/thy in writing before, because i want the speech to fit the time. If it offends/annoys or sounds odd, so what. there are people who indeed talk like that.


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18 Jan 2010, 8:18 pm

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Language changes with culture, it's a fact of life. To stick to an old usage such as Thee or Thy gets annoying. It has nothing to do with education, it has to do with culture.

http://web.ku.edu/~edit/whom.html

I would never say in real life, "Whom can we turn to"?

That just sounds pretentious and awkward.


That's because it's, "To whom can we turn?"

There. Now it's just pretentious.


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19 Jan 2010, 12:39 am

I use it in conversation. I don't think that people who don't use are stupid, though.


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19 Jan 2010, 2:00 am

RhettOracle wrote:
elderwanda wrote:
I like to answer the telephone by saying, "Is this the person to whom I am speaking?"

Lily Tomlin, is that you?


One ringy-dingy...two ringy-dingy...three ringy-dingy...

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19 Jan 2010, 2:47 am

RhettOracle wrote:
elderwanda wrote:
I like to answer the telephone by saying, "Is this the person to whom I am speaking?"

Lily Tomlin, is that you?


OMG! Thank you! I've known forever that that was a quote from somewhere, but I had completely forgotten about her!

Now it's all coming back as if I'd just seen it. "We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company! [snort]"

:lol:



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19 Jan 2010, 2:55 am

You're welcome!

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19 Jan 2010, 12:05 pm

to whom it may concern;

whilst there are those among you who doth protest muchly, gentle readers, it doth behoove one to master the language, ere not ye are then mastered by it...;)


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19 Jan 2010, 12:22 pm

You're all a bunch of comedians. :lol:


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19 Jan 2010, 8:59 pm

pakled wrote:
to whom it may concern;

whilst there are those among you who doth protest muchly, gentle readers, it doth behoove one to master the language, ere not ye are then mastered by it...;)


Fer shizzle, dawg.


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21 Jan 2010, 1:12 pm

word up, dawg...;)


Whom - passive voice
Who - active voice

that's what they taught us...


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