thermal_shockWow, ok.
Obligatory, fuck Tom Cruise.
what did he do
Other people have already mentioned scientology, so I’ll add this.
Why are the years in feet?
It probably annotates abbreviation of the full year 1985 1986 1987, etc, so people don’t get confused and think Tom Cruise was 87 when he married Mimi Rogers.
I can’t say if it’s a good or bad annotation, but theres a possible explanation.
But don’t you put that on the left, to replace the “19” or “20”?
Idk why or who makes the conventions. It might be a required format, kind of like how you’re supposed to start numbering pages in ACA after the title page.
yeah whomever made this just put them on the wrong side
Just to be pedantic, you should use “whoever” there, not “whomever.”
To tell whether to use “who” or “whom,” replace it with “he” or “him” and follow the ‘m.’
“he made this” vs “him made this”
Can I get an example for whomever please? My brain is slow today but like learning new grammar tips.
Sure!
“I don’t care who they are, if I’m asked I’ll give grammar tips to whomever.”
Whomever is tough, because often this would be constructed as “I’ll give grammar tips to whoever asks.” And you would use “who” there, because “whoever” is the subject of the clause “whoever asks.”
Generally speaking, it’s usually safe to pick “whoever” over “whomever.”
But if you drop the “-ever” it’s a lot easier. Anywhere you’d use “him” (that is, the objective pronoun), you use “whom.” To whom, for whom, by whom, etc.
Thanks. This is amazing and just what I needed to understand the differences. Appreciate you taking the time.
AppaYipYipOmg thank you for this!!! I never understood when whom would ever be used!!
i know
ExcrubulentTo be even more pedantic, that’s wrong. “Whom” is basically dead in informal usage, you can use “who” wherever you would use “whom” and nobody except the most tedious pedants will care.
The wikipedia article on the topichhas a fascinating section:
Lasnik and Sobin argue that surviving occurrences of “whom” are not part of ordinary English grammar, but the result of extra-grammatical rules for producing “prestige” forms.
There’s also this stackexchange answer which documents more cases of its decline:
english.stackexchange.com/questions/56/…/94#94
Essentially, you only use it to show off your big swinging grammar dick. It is only used when written and in formal, prestige contexts, which this is not, so to insist that it is the “correct” form is actually wrong.
Also, please remember the golden rule of grammar: if you understood well enough to make a correction, you didn’t need to correct anything.
