r/mildlyinfuriating 2d ago

English for Beginners

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u/Admirable_Hunter_703 2d ago

English is so hard to learn that even native speakers argue over whether it's "who" or "whom"—and then just avoid the sentence altogether by saying, "That guy!"

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u/EnigmaFrug0817 2d ago

“Who” and “Whom” isn’t actually that hard

It’s related to the answer to the question.

Who is there?” -> “He is there!”

Whom do you want to go for lunch with?” -> “I want to go to lunch with him!”

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u/rda1991 1d ago

This is such a weird little easter egg in English. It's easy for me to grasp, because my first and second languages conjugate similarly to this, with suffixes. The rest of English doesn't though, so I get why especially natives might find it odd or unnecessary.

Having briefly looked it up, it is indeed claimed to be a non-native conjugation element.