Grammar Nazi!
Mar. 28th, 2014 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trickykittyHere's a sentence I read in an article regarding the game The Secret World that I'm currently playing:
With a plethora of different currencies that can be spent only at certain places for certain things, players have keep tabs on whom they can spend what with and where said whos actually are. (sic)
I give the writer a nice applause while simultaneously cringing while my inner Gram-Naz screams in my ear. Hooray for the proper use of whom and who (or in this case, whos, which is also correct versus the typical 'whose' or 'who's' that someone else might have typed). However, that being said, there's the obvious exclusion of a 'to' in there, my outdated manner of speaking wants to change it to 'with whom' so as not to end the sentence phrase in a preposition, and, GOOD GOD, it's just such a convoluted sentence (unlike this one, which is so totally not a long, convoluted run-on whatsoever - nope, not this one).
What's great about this sentence, though, is how it manages to strangely incorporate the frustration of the game player by causing the reader to feel an almost intrinsic sense of that same pain through the visual cortex and cognitive pathways activated while trying to process it.
Kind of like that last sentence of mine.
(I promise I have work to do while at work. This is just me procrastinating getting around to accomplishing it.)
With a plethora of different currencies that can be spent only at certain places for certain things, players have keep tabs on whom they can spend what with and where said whos actually are. (sic)
I give the writer a nice applause while simultaneously cringing while my inner Gram-Naz screams in my ear. Hooray for the proper use of whom and who (or in this case, whos, which is also correct versus the typical 'whose' or 'who's' that someone else might have typed). However, that being said, there's the obvious exclusion of a 'to' in there, my outdated manner of speaking wants to change it to 'with whom' so as not to end the sentence phrase in a preposition, and, GOOD GOD, it's just such a convoluted sentence (unlike this one, which is so totally not a long, convoluted run-on whatsoever - nope, not this one).
What's great about this sentence, though, is how it manages to strangely incorporate the frustration of the game player by causing the reader to feel an almost intrinsic sense of that same pain through the visual cortex and cognitive pathways activated while trying to process it.
Kind of like that last sentence of mine.
(I promise I have work to do while at work. This is just me procrastinating getting around to accomplishing it.)
