murky days on the WHO/WHOM front

[sagehen]

The appearance of this subordinate clause on another post this morning:-
"all of whom had a great sense of humor".... which could have been just as
correctly expressed as  "who all had a great sense of humor"... brings
several thoughts to mind:  (1) no wonder people get confused! and (2) it's
easy to understand why someone might suppose that if syntactic analysis and
close examination for meaning  combined can't lead to one *correct* result,
the whole enterprise must just be so much BB-stacking.
A. Murie