Chicks dig whom
2014-02-13 19:35:21.702156+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Language Log: Whom loves ya? looks at Wired: How to Create the Perfect Online Dating Profile, in 25 Infographics and observes that although men who use "whom" get 31% more contacts from female respondents:
But listen, guys, here's the point: none of this complicated crap makes the slightest bit of difference! Wired didn't check the syntactic contexts, they just counted word-form tokens!
It simply doesn't matter whether you use whom correctly!
I suspect this is also behind the rampant "I/me" misusage.