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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Don't know if this is right or could be phrased better.

John is one of the least geographically challenged people whom I know.
  

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It is irritatingly facetious as well as awkward. Use this: John never gets lost.

— Mister Micawber

  • It is irritatingly facetious as well as awkward.
  • Use this: John never gets lost.
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It is irritatingly facetious as well as awkward. Use this:

John never gets lost.
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Well, this is the conversation:

Fred: I believe I am going on road trip to Santa Cruz, CA over spring break.

John: Oh, I thought you meant Santa Cruz, VA. My mistake.

Fred: Was that supposed to be sarcasm?

Greg: No Fred, John is just geographically challenged.

Fred: John is one of the least geographically challenged p
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When you write a dialog, you must write as people speak. They do not say 'CA', for instance. In addition, if this is a complete dialog, the 2nd, 3rd and 5th lines are non sequiturs. There is no real interaction between the speakers, and there is no semblance of seeming sarcasm. It would have to read more like this:


Fred: I'm going on a road trip to Santa
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I understand how the conversation should sound, I was looking more for whether or not the "whom" was suppossed to be there. Thanks for clarifying. Also, this was a real life conversation, if it were a dialog I would write it like so:

Fred: I'm going on a road trip to Santa Cruz, California over spring break.

John: Oh, good thing you said "California;" I would have
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Spelling correction:"... was supposed to be there."
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No budding playwright, I'm afraid.
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AnonymousI was looking more for whether or not the "whom" was suppossed to be there

If it's a transcription of a real-life conversation, presumably the "whom" must be retained. It does have a slight air of affectation, though, as if the speaker was determined to insert a "whom" instead of the more usual "that" (or the even more usual nothing, as Mister M.
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Well golly mister!! I sure am glad you're here to tell me that!!!

That was rather hurtful, I agree that the script isn't that great, but I am working off of the words of other people, although you weren't present to the conversation, that is generally how it went only adapted to make more sense without the aid of previous or forthcoming dialogue.
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Thank you, MrP, for that response; that was what concerned me most.

Regards,

Michael
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