For the past maybe 3 years, at forums, blogs and in
essays, I keep seeing "of which" used in the most inane
ways. Latest example: "school (of which I attended many years
back)."
What is it with stupid memes proliferating? Do these
people even minimally think about what they're writing?!? How does
"of" make even one microbe of sense there?!
The
school of which you write obviously didn't teach you well.
{snarl}
No, it is not OC to fume about this sort of thing
(tiny details can
reveal a lot), because these fatuous memes are
symbolic of something much larger, that is, a populace so dumb that
they do things like vote for an Obarfma. This kind of idiocy is
symptomatic of a severely ill society/body politic.
And while
we're at it, the expression is not "different to"
(they're
obviously confusing this with "similar to"),
but rather "different
FROM"! I even heard an unctious
commentator on a BBC documentary make this mistake!
WHERE are the editors?!?!
