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Notes and Asides.(usage of who and whom)(Column)
-- Dear Mr. Buckley: Anent the objective form of the personal pronoun (Sept. 16), the who/whom distinction is not only traditional but still useful, especially in initial position as an indicator of which way the rest of the sentence will run. It also communicates that the writer has a care for time-honored English usage and courteously assumes such a care on the part of his reader.
This brings me to your answer to Max C. Powell, in which a sentence startlingly has as subject, "thee perhaps, I certainly." Why not "me certainly" for the sake of consistency? If it is the objective case that is to be abolished, one might as well make a thorough job of it: Many an older text could be emended, e.g., "And I say also unto thou, that thou art Peter" or "Shall I compare thou to a summer's day?"
"Between you and I" is already catching on. The possibilities are endless, if one elects to go that road.
Sincerely yours,
Barbara N. Baur
Pittsburgh, Pa.
--Dear Mrs. Baur: Oh, come on. To acknowledge the unimportance of the objective pronoun in some situations is not to write categorical renunciations of proper usage.
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