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> Who vs whom is one example... of a distinction that exists in only the formal written register of less than a handful of English prestige dialects. It is no
by torstenvl 6y ago
> Who vs whom is one example...
of a distinction that exists in only the formal written register of less than a handful of English prestige dialects.
It is not wrong to say "Who did you learn this nonsense from?" It is just not formal written Standard American English.
Your insistence that one native speaker's dialect is somehow "more right" than another's is not a measure of someone's linguistic competence, it's a social value judgment with classist and racist overtones. Maybe if you spent some time studying AAVE (African American Vernacular English) and other dialects, you wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it as "ebonics."