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[Jonathan Lighter]

> these days.

God knows. Remember, my little quiz was given *forty* years ago!

JL

On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 12:52 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> > "An idea -------- time has come."
>
> I was taught to use _whose_, back, in the 1940's and I'm sticking with it:
> "... an art exhibition _whose_ theme was violence ..."
>
> That there's a problem makes me wonder how TF written/standard/proper
> /formal/whatever English is taught, these days.
>
> Some would write:
> "... an art exhibition(,) _the theme of which_ was violence ..."
>
> I wouldn't, but I don't find it peeving.
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 2:56 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Back around 1983 or '84, I drove even a few graduate students crazy by
> > asking them to fill in the blank with a relative pronoun:
> >
> > "An idea -------- time has come."
> >
> >  In descending order, the responses were "who's," "whose," "thats,"
> > "that's," "which's," "whiches."
> >
> > Some freshmen couldn't come up with anything.
> >
> > JL
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 12:32 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > At some point we'll be posting a phenomenon page on "that(')s" on the
> > Yale
> > > Grammatical Diversity Project web site (ygdp.yale.edu); the draft is
> > done
> > > but we kind of stopped working on everything over the summer.  Turns
> out
> > > there are a lot of variables for when it's more likely to turn up,
> > although
> > > from what I remember from the relevant surveys, geography isn't one of
> > > them; mostly it has to do with animacy and syntactic frame.
> > >
> > > LH
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 9:15 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > "... an art exhibition _that's_ theme was violence ..."
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > - Wilson
> > > > -----
> > > > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> to
> > > > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > > > -Mark Twain
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> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
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