Wonderful English from Around the World

bonedriven said:

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
-Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)

I think there's a grammar mistake in the sentence,but I can't see it.
Isn't the "whom" right to use instead of "who"?

Using who and whom are another tricky use of the confusing English language.
Who are you speaking to?
To whom are you speaking to?

BrightBlessings said:

bonedriven said:

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
-Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)

I think there's a grammar mistake in the sentence,but I can't see it.
Isn't the "whom" right to use instead of "who"?

The correct way to say this would be Even if you do learn to speak correct English, to whom are you going to speak it?

This is very nit-picky, but there are accepted ways of speaking which differ from the accepted ways of writing. Your correction is the right way to write it as you are not supposed to end a sentence with a preposition. However, one could get away with saying it...

electrotune1200 said:

Most native english speaking people can't speak it correctly either.

Yew got that write. Yet, they don't even know they broked it...

mpcrsc562 said:

I've also thougth that the English alphabet needs to be revamped -- to a more phonetically based alphabet.

In a way it has been revamped, but into a more dyslexic way, rather than any phonetic way.

Thanks SMS speak

Scotteq said:

I helped my uncle, Jack, off his horse

- It may be old, but classics are still classics



Kudos to those who use English up as as a second language.

smarteyeball said:

In a way it has been revamped, but into a more dyslexic way, rather than any phonetic way.

Thanks SMS speak

OMG! Ur str8 on the $ with that 1

SMS TALK IS A HEINOUS CRIME ON LANGUAGE!

BrightBlessings said:

bonedriven said:

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
-Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)

I think there's a grammar mistake in the sentence,but I can't see it.
Isn't the "whom" right to use instead of "who"?

The correct way to say this would be Even if you do learn to speak correct English, to whom are you going to speak it?

Yes,this is the proper way, which you rarely hear someone say.:)

BrightBlessings said:

Maybe this will make english easier to learn



The European Commission has just announced an agreement that English will be the official language of the European Community (EU) - rather than German (the other possibility). As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement, and has accepted a 5-year phase-in of new rules that would apply to the language and reclassify it as EuroEnglish. The agreed plan is as follows: In year 1, the soft 'c' would be replaced by 's'. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be replased by 'k'. This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan now have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' is replased by 'f'. This will reduse "fotograf' by 20%. In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent 'e's in the language is disgrasful, and they should eliminat them. By year 4, peopl wil be reseptiv to lingwistik korektions such as replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v' (saving mor keyboard spas). During ze fifz year, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz year, ve vil hav a reli sensibil riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!!

Magnifisint!