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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: "I don't care who this offends!!"
Message-ID: <553@opus.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 03:04:46 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 19 03:04:46 1984
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(Moved from net.jokes - neither this article nor its parent is a real
joke.)

>> YOU BET I'M OFFENDED!  THAT'S "I don't care *WHOM* this offends" !!!!
>
>...				     ...
>                                    For
>    Meet the Preposition Family:    From       -->  WHOM
>                                    Of
>...				     ...
>
>"I don't care *who* this offends" is correct grammar.
>
>    From the sixth-grade desk of Trisha O Tuama                      

Well, it's always nice to see that someone will post a grammar counter-flame
without knowing correct grammar.  I might as well assert that the correct
form is "I don't care which this offends" for all the thought that goes
into it.
[In case you're honestly wondering, the subject of the clause is "this".
The object is "whom"; objective case is required.  I know it's unflamely to
explain instead of just blindly asserting - too bad!]
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	...Cerebus for dictator!