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Subject:
Pedants that or who?
From:
DD Farms <[log in to unmask]>
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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:04:37 -0600
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At 12:38 PM 1/17/2009, Brad Johnston wrote:
>Paulson's Next Stop: Johns Hopkins
>"We are honored to have him coming", said Felisa Klubes, a SAIS spokeswoman.
>DD: Is that now the preferred High Standard English way to go? "him 
>coming"? Is it only the ardent pedants that prefer, "his coming"?
>  BJ: pedants that? or pedants who?

DD: I sort of guess it depends on your consideration of the humanity 
of pedants. 

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