Whodoyoutrust

This is getting annoying.

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  6. Marve’s marketing department is great at it’s job. But this time I think they are doing the “overkill” on this one so far.

  7. This whole campaign is kind of boring compared to the Zombie covers which have been done so much that they are no longer interesting.

  8. That’s the old Spider-Man font (Todd Klein: one of yours?).

    A STRONG HINT, if EVER I saw one.

    Todd Klei – I mean Spider-Man is a Skrull!

    Also, THE EYES.

    //Oo/\

  13. Whom cares?

    About who/whom, I mean.

    It has been obvious for weeks that Marvel is going to run a whole garbage-truck load of Skrull covers over the next year. Last year—zombies. This year—Skrulls. Next year—???

  16. C’mon, PAD. Whom has been dying for years and it’s not a great loss. Language is carbon-based, not silicon. Let it evolve.

  20. Actually, it will shake out that the way to tell a human from a Skrull is that humans know how to use who/whom properly. Skrulls always get it wrong. So, the ending to PAD’s scene is:

    “No. Objective case whom.”

    “BLAM! BLAM!”

  22. It’s almost as if language doesn’t evolve or something. As if it’s frozen in time, never to change.

    I’d like to ask PAD when the last time he used “thee” or “thou” was.

  24. I like ‘whom’. It makes me feel important.

    But seriously, if we start deleting all the difficult parts of language that are irregular or difficult and calling it “evolution”, one day we’ll be left with “I finded mooses in my garden. Its bad and your 2 blame.”

  26. Hmmm… Alright Daniel, y’gots a point.

    I still think learning the rules and using them (to a point) betters cognitive process (as does having a larger vocabulary), but that article has partially won me over.

  27. The copy-editor is right. “Whom” is basically dead outside formal written English. Even the OED lists it as obsolete in colloquial speech. And there are plenty of situations where, whatever the traditional rules may say, “Whom” is so unnatural as to be plainly wrong in a modern context. (“Whom do you think you’re looking at?”)

    “Who do you trust?” is entirely right as colloquial English, and more or less acceptable even as formal English. “Whom do you trust?” is too formal in tone.

  28. learning about and the continual usage of the delicacies of a language also enriches and preserves a greater part of the cultural processes that human civilization as a whole have developed until this point, besides the proposed cognitive advantage above ..

    that pseudo-intellectual argument aside, who do you trust sounds about right and don’t think it should be considered a big issue anyway.. :p

  30. I read Calvin Trillin’s remark in an issue of WRITER’S DIGEST long ago:

    “As far as I’m concerned, ‘whom’ is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.”

    So does this mean this Jarvis is a skrull?

  31. Is this going to be like CIVIL WAR in that a major change in the Marvel universe will be introduced (like the unmasking of Spider-Man) only to have it magically disappear a year later?

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