spent more time than I care to admit considering the aesthetics of dropping a "whom" next to a split phrasal verb
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Replying to @eigenrobot
i do believe it's an unambiguous who in this case
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Replying to @spedru
hm does that take priority? man I can see why this was deprecated
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Replying to @eigenrobot
well even with the who, the sentence as a whole is a little weird because the phrase isn't a real part of speech
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Replying to @eigenrobot
by “not a real part of speech” i mean it doesnt immediately fit into any of the usual neat boxes for me
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Replying to @spedru @eigenrobot
“who knocks their wife up” in isolation only makes sense with a question mark after it
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mb “indifferent to who it is that knocks their wife up” lets the phrase sit more naturally functioning as a noun but it's clunkier
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it's a little mysterious to me still but "who" is reading more correct at this point hurhrhm thanks for letting me pick at this :)
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Replying to @eigenrobot
if you ever need someone to pontificate over something as intricate as it is inconsequential, i'm your man
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