Question
A satiric New Yorker article about this distinction claimed that using a certain pronoun to refer to a street cleaner would be an example of the Pathetic Fallacy. For 10 points each:
[10e] Identify this common prescriptivist nitpick, a distinction between the nominative and objective forms of the pronoun used to refer to people.
ANSWER: who/whom distinction [accept who vs. whom or anything that mentions who and whom]
[10m] Who and whom use inflection to indicate case, which is unusual for English, since English is one of these languages. These languages normally use word order to indicate noun case, rather than inflection, but may have multiple morphemes per word.
ANSWER: analytic languages [reject “isolating languages”]
[10h] “Who” and “Whom” are both wh-words (“double-you” aitch “words”), which can induce this process of dragging a surrounding phrase to a new place in the sentence. John R. Ross coined the name for this process based on German folklore.
ANSWER: pied-piping [accept word forms]
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Summary
| 2023 BHSU @ Berkeley | 03/18/2023 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 67% | 100% | 67% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Maryland | 03/11/2023 | Y | 3 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Northwestern | 02/25/2023 | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2023 BHSU Online | 04/15/2023 | Y | 4 | 2.50 | 0% | 25% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Sheffield | 04/15/2023 | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Waterloo | 04/15/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 67% | 0% |
| 2023 BHSU @ Yale | 04/08/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| The Passion According to C.H. | Cameron et al. | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style | The Vulture's Guide to Buzz | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Parth et al. | Milan et al. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |