Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Go ask Alice... but Wait Until She's Ten-Feet Tall
From "The Office," which I rarely watch, but it cracked me up with this scene.
- Ryan: What I really want -- honestly Michael – is for you to know it so you can communicate it to the people here, to your clients, to whomever.
- Michael: Oh, ok…
- Ryan: What?
- Michael: It’s whoever, not whomever…
- Ryan: No, it’s whomever…
- Michael: No…whomever is never actually right.
- Jim: Well, sometimes it’s right.
- Creed: Michael is right. It’s a made-up word used to trick students.
- Andy: No. Actually, whomever is the formal version of the word.
- Oscar: Obviously it’s a real word, but I don’t know when to use it correctly.
- Michael: Not a native speaker.
- Kevin: I know what’s right, but I’m not gonna say because you’re all jerks who didn’t come see my band last night.
- Ryan: Do you really know which one is correct?
- Kevin: I don’t know.
- Pam: It’s whom when it’s the object of the sentence and who when it’s the subject.
- Phyllis: That sounds right.
- Michael: Well, it sounds right but is it?
- Stanley: How did Ryan use it, as an object?
- Ryan: As an object…
- Kelly: Ryan used me as an object.
- Stanley: Is he right about that?
- Pam: How did he use it again?
- Toby: It was…Ryan wanted Michael, the subject, to, uh, explain the computer system, the object, to whomever, meaning us, the indirect object…which is the correct usage of the word.
- Michael: No one asked you anything ever so, whomever’s name is Toby, why don’t you take a letter opener and stick it into your skull.
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