For my blog this week I found a clip of legendary singer-song writer Bob Dylan discussing case, specifically the difference between who and whom. This obviously fits in perfectly with what we have been learning in lab and what we were just tested on before spring break.
Dylan's tutorial on case was inspired after playing Bo Diddley's song "Who Do You Love?" on his Sirius XM Radio segment called "Theme Time Radio Hour."
After all of our discussion on case, I know that in the sentence "Who do you love?" the 'you' is the subject to the verbs 'do love,' therefore leaving 'who' without a verb. Since 'who' cannot be a subject without a verb, 'who' should really be 'whom' in this sentence. Bo Diddley obviously never took Journalism 420 with Jean McDonald or he would have known better to title his song so ungrammatically.
To here Dylan's explanation of the great who/whom debate in that famous raspy voice of his, click here.
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I thought nothing of asking "who do you want to speak to?" before taking this course. I felt so polite when i asked questions like "who should I contact?", or "who did you request?"...Needless to say, I feel silly now. I'm aware of whether I should use "whom" or "who". Our instructor said we might risk sounding snobby if we use the correct form consistantly in everyday language. I have to do so just to break myself of a bad habit.
ReplyDeleteI agree and I also have to force myself to use the correct form of "who"/"whom" when I'm speaking. True, it does sound better to say "who" instead of "whom" at times, but I've decided that I would rather risk sounding pretentious than sounding ignorant of the proper use of the English language.
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