@jer_gib@julesh I'm sticking with this one. If you listen to how people speak, including people of your generation and older and even in Oxford, you basically never hear “whom" in accusative position. Imagine somebody actually saying “I don't know whom you're talking about” out loud, it sounds incredibly jarring to me. I reckon the only version anybody at all actually uses consistently is following a preposition "to”, as though English had a dative case... and it's not 1024 any more
@julesh@jer_gib also why stop here? why not use ‘thou’ and ‘thee’ if we don’t care about language as speakers actually speak it, but merely about pretending modern English is Latin
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