TV's thinner than the plots of the shows they broadcast

[The Borg Queen]

"The Family?"

"Whom?"

 

[Venardhi]

"The Family" is a show in the world of 'Fahrenheit 451' which is displayed on walls (I think Montag had recently bought his wife a third wall for her TV room and was bugging him for a fourth). It is basically a soap opera to the Nth degree. It is interactive to some extent and has a story that pushes it along but is often either unimportant or unintelligible but yet she sits in her room watching/talking/whatever with the fake people all day every day. . . not unlike those who are addicted to games and forums online that they use to replace a proper social life.

I figured it would be a pretty easy reference, I had to read it in HS and then later in English 1A and it was on several recommended reading lists from middle school up. The US school system fails again I guess.

 

[The Borg Queen]

Oh, I thought you were making a comment on the grammatical differences between "who" and "whom".

Whom is used in the plural isn't it...?

 

[TerriO]

Venardhi said:
I figured it would be a pretty easy reference, I had to read it in HS and then later in English 1A and it was on several recommended reading lists from middle school up. The US school system fails again I guess.

No, the aging process shows its teeth again, more like it.

Speaking for myself, the last time I read it was 20 years ago.