Trump Was Just Being Sarcastic About Thinking He’s The ‘Chosen One,’ Okay?

[mattinpa]

“We will talk about his going to the concert later.” EVeryone makes the same error now: “We will talk about him going to the concert later.” That is wrpng wrong wrong and is becoming common usage. I don’t know how to stop it and I don’t think it will be stopped now and it sounds so bad to my ear.

Fowler’s good old fused participle. Not a huge pet peeve but I fix it where I see it. What I hate most is using flat-out wrong words that are dumb instead of the right ones. “Squash” instead of “quash” just appalls me.