Qiaochu_Yuan comments on [SEQ RERUN] You're Calling *Who* A Cult Leader? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 01 April 2013 12:06:02AM 2 points [-]

Whom use, even correct use but especially incorrect use, can signal an excessive concern with pedantry.

Comment author: jklsemicolon 01 April 2013 12:31:09AM 7 points [-]

Whom use...can signal an excessive concern with pedantry

Speaking of pedantry, I have no doubt that you meant:

"Whom" use

Comment author: Elithrion 01 April 2013 12:42:48AM 2 points [-]

Alternatively, if it's done by someone whom you already know decently well, and who you know isn't really a crazy obsessive pedant, it can instead signal a liking of international or British English over American.

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 01 April 2013 08:57:57PM 0 points [-]

It's possible to avoid the "whom" and be grammatical: "*Who* is Being Called a Cult Leader By You?".

Comment author: Kindly 01 April 2013 09:32:38PM 4 points [-]

"If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who is gonna be called by you? Ghostbusters!"