For non-U.S. Americans, I hear “whom” all the time here, like not a day goes by without hearing some co-worker use it.

I agree though languages change with time.

Most grammar nazis I know would probably go with “Not I”

Grammatical case. I can only really describe it in German. If you take the sentence “The boy gives the man the apple”, it’s “Der Junge gibt dem Mann den Apfel”. “Der” is masculine form of “the” in the Nominative case. “Den” is the masculine form of “the” in the Accusative case. “Dem” is the masculine form of “the” in the Dative case. It’s subject, indirect object, direct object, respectively, if you know verbs. There’s also the Genitive case, which I didn’t go into here.

The reason it’s not sufficient to talk about subject, direct object, and indirect object though is because the grammatical case also goes beyond just a noun’s relationship to a verb, it’s also affected by prepositions. If you take the German sentence “I’m driving with the Man, but without the Apple” (I know, sort of a silly sentence), "ich fahre mit dem Mann, aber ohne den Apfel. The prepositions here, “mit” and “ohne”, dictate that the two masculine nouns in the sentence get the masculine form of “the” in the Dative case and Accusative case, respectively. The reason why some prepositions dictate certain cases isn’t clear to me. I just have the tables memorized :D

Most grammar nazis I know would go with “whom” for the object of a preposition.

It goes up to 11.

That says more about the fat-ass Texans than the Germans

big ben, parliament!

Sitting on a broken install of it now. It was working fine for a couple of years, but because I’m just playing with it ATM, I don’t get back to it often enough. The latest guix pull has left me with a guix system reconfigure... that errors out :(

Former. Migrated to linux 20+ years ago because of…Flash support. Didn’t realize back then how quickly Flash would disappear and FreeBSD only supported it via its linux binary compatibility, which stopped working at that time.

I got it once I looked up what a Hoth is.