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[–] e_chao@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is a really good point, but I feel like an English teacher would have written "whom I married."

[–] GojuRyu@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Non native English speaker here with a genuine question; wouldn’t “telling the students whom I married” mean that the teacher married the students instead of telling students about their spouse?

[–] e_chao@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I think you're right. The clause should actually be something like "disclose to my students the gender of my spouse." How does that sound?

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Either a comma or parentheses are what would make the difference.

I will tell the students whom I married.

Now the students know who was at your wedding.

I will tell the students, whom I married.

I will tell the students (whom I married).

You're only telling something to the students that you married.

[–] nepenthes@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

You are correct. Your English is great!

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They are only stopping the "who I married"-teachers form selecting the books.
The "whom I married"-teachers get to select the book for them.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm just interpreting the meme. No real life exp here. That stuff is depressing