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like an exotic word that people only pull out to be semi-fancy, like "whom" Semi-fancy? Man, that's a pretty low bar for fifty-cent words. I use it so I sound
by mikestew 3y ago
like an exotic word that people only pull out to be semi-fancy, like "whom"
Semi-fancy? Man, that's a pretty low bar for fifty-cent words. I use it so I sound like I actually went to school and paid attention. If those with whom I speak find basic grammar fancy, that's on them.
- kibwen 3y agoWhat makes the latter sentence sound highfalutin is that you've been required to contort it away from idiomatic American English sentence structure in order to force in a "whom". The usual way of phrasing the sentence avoids "who" entirely: "If the people I speak with" or "If the people I'm talking to".
- lupire 3y agoWho(m) are you talking about? It's the "m", not the sentence structure. The awkward archaic structure is a different, often comorbid, affectation among Latinophiles.