On 2011-07-04 16:53, Torarin wrote: > 2011/7/5 Andrei Alexandrescu <seewebsiteforem...@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?
I'm pretty sure that who is the correct choice here for pretty much the reason that you're giving, but it's the sort of thing that could get pretty argumentative, so I didn't say anything. Whom really isn't used much these days (though far more than thou or thy and their ilk), so it's more or less dying out of the language, though plenty of the more literary folks still use it. Personally, I think that life would be simpler without it, but it's not completely gone yet. - Jonathan M Davis
