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Degarmo lunged past the desk towards an open elevator beside which a tired old man sat on a stool waiting for a customer. The clerk snapped at Degarmo's back like a terrier.

"One moment, please. Whom did you wish to see?"

Degarmo spun on his heel and looked at me wonderingly. "Did he say 'whom'?"

"Yeah, but don't hit him," I said. "There is such a word."

Degarmo licked his lips. "I knew there was," he said. "I often wondered where they kept it."
-- Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake

Если непонятно, почему это смешно, см. старую запись на ту же тему с другим примером и объяснением.

Роман, кстати, опубликован в 45-м году, т.е. whom в разговорной речи воспринималось как маньеризм уже тогда.

Date: 2004-01-23 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
In my own speech, I'm pretty sure I use "whom" only after prepositions ("To whom did you give it?" -- though I'd be more likely to say "Who did you give it to?"). The attempt to preserve it as a general object pronoun is pretty funny.

Steve
http://languagehat.com/

Date: 2004-01-23 09:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vnarod.livejournal.com
Русскоговоряшим проще. У них кому/кого автоматически переводится как whom

Date: 2004-01-24 08:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-konst.livejournal.com
насколько я понял, это особенность американского английского.
А в Британии говорят "whom"?

Date: 2004-01-24 09:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] damiel.livejournal.com
whom в разговорной речи воспринималось как маньеризм уже тогда.

Indeed! I was not surprised by the exchange until I noticed it had been excerpted from a Raymond Chandler book. Interesting.

Date: 2004-01-24 10:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] saltovski.livejournal.com
А как надо?

(Чукча больше читатель...)

Date: 2004-01-25 02:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] avva.livejournal.com
Обычно американцы используют всюду who там, где согласно традиционной
грамматике надо использовать who или whom.

Уже в "Языке" Сепира

Date: 2004-01-26 08:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] platonicus.livejournal.com
описано вытеснение whom.

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