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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