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“Whom” is disappearing and everyone needs to chill about it
- taylodl 8y agoDo you want to read For Who the Bell Tolls? Neither do I!
- jakear 8y agoI think it’d be more likely to end up as “For Those the Bell Tolls For”. Which I also don’t want to read.
- bediger4000 8y agoThen it's a good thing Hemingway didn't write it. English changes: the rest of that John Donne sentence is "the bell tolls for thee"? Should we bring back "thee" and "thou" as pronouns? I'm guessing yes, but then we have to decide if "thee" has informal/personal connotations as per originally, or if "thee" is now formal, as we've come to view it in these latter days. Ditch "whom". Using it makes you sound like an Ent,