Comments on: Who moved my cheese?

By: a lunch thief with serious balls

a lunch thief with serious balls — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:27:42 +0000

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By: Kansas girl

Kansas girl — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:04:42 +0000

Wouldn’t it be “ree” alert level? Since the other note is claiming the level is “orangg.”

By: Steph

Steph — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:52:39 +0000

This Lathrop Hall is actually at University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

By: aims

aims — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:13:12 +0000

Note should read “To WHOMever ate my cheese, Fuck you!” And the cheese-eater replies, “Fuck you back and no fuck backs!”

By: jackie31337

jackie31337 — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:37:46 +0000

Let’s not forget the door-spreading potential, either.

By: Dairy Air

Dairy Air — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:03:29 +0000

Lathrop Hall is on U of Wisconsin Madison campus where chesse and meat are taken rather seriously. As soon as campus security finishes chugging a few more pitchers of melted butter, you can rest assured the thief will be brought to justice and punished with low-fat sour cream.

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:12:59 +0000

Troy, my object has only been a subject of interest to me since puberty!

By: anglophile

anglophile — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:46:39 +0000

I used a smilie.

By: bellabeastie

bellabeastie — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:04:43 +0000

To whoever now has a monstrous headache:

Oh, wait, that’s me. Nevermind.

By: Saysh

Saysh — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:32:59 +0000

You are a masochist, aren’t you?

By: Beck

Beck — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:27:40 +0000

The “fucking delicious” comment never fails to make me giggle.
I am wearing the unitard already, in anticipation of the inevitable verbal thrashing I am bound to receive.

By: Troy McClure

Troy McClure — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:00:18 +0000

Hi Saltinesgirl. The Blue Book rule you quote is for choosing between “who” and “whom”, not “whoever” and “whomever”. I quoted their rule for “who[m]ever” above, but here it is again. It says that, because you could say, “To him. He ate my cheese,” but not, “To him. Him ate my cheese,” the required word is “whoever”.

CB, the difference is that “whom” is the object of “it may concern” but the subject of “ate my cheese.” (Just in case you need something to think about on the plane! )

Bean, I linked to two sites; I think you only checked the 2nd. Yes, don’t let AΦ wind you up; we’re just having fun. Grammar is one of the few things I feel comfortable having a no-holds-barred argument about, because no one’s likely to take it personally!

By: bean

bean — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:46:46 +0000

Troy,
I made that statement because I have yet to see any pointed exception to the rule of using the accusative, whom, when it’s the object of a preposition. The argument from that website was a great one, but it wasn’t a rule. It was speculation. I was just going by the rules that I know.

That was a good website btw. I actually enjoyed it, learned some things. The comments were good, but I don’t know anything about German. I know that Latin, Greek (Attic that is) and Spanish would all use the accusative form following a preposition, so that also influenced my opinion.

Just cuz you asked. I do agree that either way, it’s wrong. For all I know, they do have that rule… But, for me the fun in learning grammar is that the rules are broken as easily as they are made, and that’s the beauty and challenge of it all. I’m sure you feel the same way

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:56:27 +0000

Not being a whiz at grammar myself, I’d just use “To whomever ate my cheese…” because I’d write a letter as “To whom it may concern”, and the person that ate my cheese is the person concerned.

I could be very wrong.

I never really give much thought to the proper terms for the parts of speech.