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Wednesday: What I really want, honestly, Pugsley, is for you to know it, so that you can communicate it to the people here, to your clients, to whomever.
Pugsley: …okay.
Wednesday: What?
Pugsley: It’s whoever, not whomever.
Wednesday: No, it’s whomever.
Pugsley: No, whomever is never actually right.
Lucas: Sometimes it’s right.
NJ: Pugsley is right; it’s a made-up word used to trick students.
Gina: No. Actually, whomever is the formal version of the word.
Joel: Obviously, it’s a real word, but I don’t know when to use it correctly.
Fester: 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.
Wednesday: Do you really know which one is correct?
Fester: I don’t know.
Monday: It’s “whom” when it’s the object of a sentence, and “who” when it’s the subject.
Lucas: That sounds right.
Pugsley: Well it sounds right but is it?
NJ: How did Wednesday use it, as an object?
Wednesday: As an object.
Joel: Wednesday used ME as an object.
Gina: Is he right about that?
Monday: How did he use it again?
Lucas: It was, “I wanted Pugsley” — subject — “to explain the computer system” — the object —
Pugsley: Thank you!
Lucas: — “to whomever,” meaning us, the indirect object, which is the correct usage of the word.
Pugsley: No one asked you anything, so why don’t whomever’s name is Lucas, take a letter opener and stick it in your skull?
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