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No, whom! Prolog killed him, not Prolog killed he. To get the reference, you have to follow some HN submissions on Prolog...
by zmonx 9y ago
No, whom! Prolog killed him, not Prolog killed he.
To get the reference, you have to follow some HN submissions on Prolog...
- Twisol 9y agoReference aside, OVS is a very rare word order in English. Most would expect "Prolog killed whom". Then again, "Prolog killed who" is broadly considered acceptable, so whom am I to judge?
- zmonx 9y agoWhom and who are we to judge!
- fusiongyro 9y agoExcept the complement of the verb of being is nominative. "Who am I to judge?" is correct (think, "I am he (who is) to judge"). Also in old-fashioned phone etiquette, "May I speak to X?" "This is she." Of course, OP was extremely opaque and I didn't understand what they meant either. Is the point of language to be understood, or to adhere to invented rules? This has been a fun diversion! Only on a Prolog thread...
- Twisol 9y agoI suspect "Whom am I to judge" is also correct, but only because of a technicality. (It was an intentional play on words, so even moreso now, who am I to judge?) "_Whom_ am I to judge", asking which people ought I be judgemental about, versus "_Who am I_ to judge", meaning I really ought not throw stones in glass houses.
- fusiongyro 9y agoI think you and the OP are very unlikely to be understood using that construction.