• jenesaisquoi@feddit.org
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    20 hours ago

    Incorrect use of whom. Who kills who (accusative case). Who gets killed by whom (dative case).

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      17 hours ago

      It’s the objective case, i.e. everything that isn’t nominative, so this usage would be correct. We don’t have a real distinction between accusative and dative in modern english.

      That being said, I’m a descriptivist who is strongly of the opinion that ‘who’ is always correct and ‘whom’ is archaic.