@Lustig Andrei,
Quote:'Moribund' and 'obsolete' are not synonims, JTT.
Did I say they were, Merry?
Quote:I would even question just how archaic (i.e.moribund) the objective case 'whom/whomever' useage has become.
'archaic' and 'moribund' are not synonyms either. 'whom' is part of a case system that is dead, just as 'were' is part of a subjunctive system that is dead.
That remnants remain doesn't make them any the less moribund.
Quote:Certainly people of a certain age (read: moi)who are familiar with what you refer to as 'prescriptive' grammar and with the English anguage
tend to use the proper case. I do most of the time. I suspect tat so does Roberta and other literate souls here on A2k.
Being literate, and prescriptive certainly doesn't make a person wise, Merry. That's not the "proper" case.
I think that a recording of your speech would illustrate to you that you know as little about your own usage as you do about the usage of others.
I haven't noticed you to be overly pompous in your postings. You're not seriously trying to suggest that you regularly say such things as,
"Whom did you tell/see/phone/call/...?"
Even 13 year old Gracie [now 14, I believe] knew that that's not how English works.
