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What 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
by kibwen 3y ago
What 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.