That and which replacing who/whom?

[PickyPicky]

As to newspaper English, @Wampa, here below is a good argument for the press abiding by some of the daft rules that the general public shouldn’t bother with. (If you don’t know the blog, it’s by an editor on a famous British Sunday newspaper, which is pseudonymous in the blog, but the identity of which is pretty clear.)

Dumbness with no reward

A couple of weeks ago over at John McIntyre’s unmissable blog You Don’t Say, a discussion was in full flow about the perennial clash between traditional prescriptivist rule-making and m…

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[on_the_hill]

Is this some sort of weird ecological stunt to reduce humanity to the level of things now?

I doubt very much that grammatical errors are part of a conspiracy.

 

[jeannetherese]

Nice adjustment. As a suggestion, who dropped a cell phone might be clearer. Otherwise, there is a risk of a reader, who is less familiar with English, thinking the street dropped the phone.

 

[Vico]

Nice adjustment. As a suggestion, who dropped a cell phone might be clearer. Otherwise, there is a risk of a reader, who is less familiar with English, thinking the street dropped the phone.

I called out to the person I was walking behind that dropped a phone on the street.