Q: Do you know what a pronoun is?This must be quite a moment for Mark Liberman, who has pleaded so often for better education of the public about language and how it works. (I'm still pondering how to interpret it — is it a sign that this woman is utterly out of it that she doesn't know or is this regarded as some obscure knowledge?)
[long pause, nervous look, then:]
A: I think so.
And Joe needs to post his old joke abstract about "Foxworthy's Law", showing that Foxworthy's interest in linguistic matters is not new and that he can be insightful.
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Or, as Calvin said, "A noun which has lost its amateur status".
Oh yeah, that's right. Probably the answer this contestant had in mind, eh?
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