JCC "Whomever" is an object: The grammar nerd thread!

There's a sufi parable about pedantry. I quite like the way Idries Shah tells it in 'The exploits of the incomparable Mullah Nasrudin' but the gist is as follows:

"Nasrudin, ferrying a pedant across a piece of rough water, said something ungrammatical to him.
"Have you never studied grammar?" asked the scholar.
"No."
"Then half of your life has been wasted."
A few minutes later Nasrudin turned to the passenger. "Have you ever learned how to swim?"
"No. Why?"
"Then all your life is wasted - we are sinking!"

 

I make it clear in the first post that this thread is not intended to embarrass or humiliate anyone. It's just for fun. Some people are grammar nerds; some aren't. Participation is by no means compulsory!

To your last sentence, the purpose of this thread is to put an otherwise irrelevant discussion into a thread of its own, so that the original thread does not get derailed.

 

it was more directed to your last post, where you asked about sending a thread off-topic.

 

"Whomever" is an object: The Grammar Nerd Nazi Thread

There. Fixed.

 

Grammar your way out of this, Poindexter

 

Hence this thread. In the first post I state unequivocally that I don't want to derail threads. If the GrandAdmiral of flavored gelatine products shuts this one down, my question is: Is it ok to derail threads with grammatical asides?

 

Vote Trump.




He'll sort out the grammars. Wooooo!



The guy behind the Trump sign, the one holding his right arm down...



Whoah, I have gone WAY off topic. Sorry.

 

yes, i get that. don't get me wrong, a thread about grammar is fine by me. i guess i just don't understand the need to discuss it in other threads that are likely about other topics, since you almost made it sound like that was something you'd have to do if this thread got closed.

 

I try to suppress the urge to correct grammar everywhere I go! I don't want to annoy anyone, so I made this thread to give people like me a place to do so without derailing threads.