What impressed Greene about her students' errors was how often they revealed an underlying knowledge of the structure of English words. Sometimes, in other words, our students' writing mistakes reveal as much about what they know as about what they don't know. Despite two centuries of prescriptivist effort, who continues to be used as it often was in Shakespeare's day, as the object of a verb or following preposition. Speakers today use who and the more snooty-sounding whom not so much to distinguish between pronoun cases as to project a desired level of formality, and Conan sure don't see nothin' wrong with that. Conan the Grammarian is published by the Writing Committee of Adams State College's Department of English, Theatre, and Communications to spread the gospel of Writing Across the Curriculum.
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