Mr. McWhorter's academic speciality is language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of “whom, ” for example, to be natural and no more regrettable than the loss of the case-endings of Old English.
麦荷特先生的学术专长
于语 言史和语言演变。举例来说,他认为“whom”一词的逐
消失是自然的,并不比古英语中词格尾缀的消失更让人惋惜。