Question
Tim Wharton claimed that this part of speech exists on a continuum between “showing” and “saying” in a paper using relevance theory as a framework. Felix Ameka created a classification including the “conative” type of this part of speech in a paper referring to this part of speech as the “universal yet neglected part of speech.” A term referring to a blacksmith and an apprentice is used to describe a phatic use of this part of speech in Japanese called aizuchi, which is used in backchanneling. (*) Secondary examples of this part of speech are taken from other parts of speech. Members of this part of speech in English are the only ones where click consonants can occur. Cognitive examples of this part of speech are often used as filler words. For 10 points, English examples of what part of speech include expletives and exclamations like “ouch”? ■END■
Summary
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford | 02/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 146.00 |
2024 ARGOS Online | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis | 03/22/2025 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 100% | 146.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster | 11/17/2024 | Y | 5 | 80% | 0% | 20% | 115.00 |
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia | 11/23/2024 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 33% | 141.50 |
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago | 11/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 100% | 33% | 17% | 117.67 |
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College | 12/14/2024 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 126.33 |
Buzzes
Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
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Neil Gurram | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | 80 | -5 |
Dan Ni | hawk two of | Notre Dame | 83 | 15 |
Todd Maslyk | Clown Senpais | That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days | 83 | 15 |
Albert Zhang | Walston et. al. | 12 Litres of Green Tea | 83 | -5 |
Jason Golfinos | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | Stanford+ | 85 | -5 |
Kunaal Chandrashekar | as rational as the square root of two power bottoms | Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha | 86 | 10 |
Erik Christensen | I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up | You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit | 92 | 10 |
Matthew Wang | UBC | CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU! | 95 | 10 |
Eren Michelet | Pahkin' the Ahgo | Banned from ARGOS | 116 | -5 |
Brendan Bethlehem | Cien Años de Quizboledad | Limp Franceskit | 116 | 10 |
Ishan Joshi | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | 116 | -5 |
Eve Fleisig | Berkeley | Cry of the Common Loon | 116 | -5 |
Conor Thompson | Thompson et al. | throw away your cards, rally in the streets | 116 | 10 |
Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge | Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz | 117 | 10 |
Arjun Vijaykumar | Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms | I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire | 118 | 10 |
Walter Zhang | Import Pandas | |madam| | 122 | -5 |
Matt Schiavone | Northeast by Northwestern | Clown Squad | 123 | 10 |
Christopher Dech | Hu up Jinning they Tao | "Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro | 129 | -5 |
John Marvin | The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day) | BHSU ReFantazio | 129 | 10 |
Ali Izzatdust | Simple Vibes | Defying Suavity | 137 | -5 |
Matt Lafer | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | 141 | -5 |
David Bass | just one more half-dot bro | jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club | 141 | 10 |
Colin Veevers | Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country | Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken | 141 | 10 |
Benjamin Chapman | Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut | The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange | 141 | 10 |
Ryan Rosenberg | Cope is the thing with feathers | NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess) | 142 | 10 |
Jeremy Cummings | WashU | BHSU Rebirth | 143 | 10 |
Michael Hundiing | Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus? | Music to Help You Stop Smoking | 145 | 10 |
Michael Kearney | |madam| | Import Pandas | 146 | 10 |
Jaimie Carlson | Banned from ARGOS | Pahkin' the Ahgo | 146 | 10 |
Daoud Jackson | Defying Suavity | Simple Vibes | 146 | 10 |
Zaid Asif | 12 Litres of Green Tea | Walston et. al. | 146 | 0 |
Raymond Chen | She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere | Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers | 146 | 0 |
Vittal Bhat | number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku | A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs | 146 | 10 |
Shahar Schwartz | Cry of the Common Loon | Berkeley | 146 | 10 |
Vinu Harihar | Stanford+ | Where are the ACF Nationals recordings? | 146 | 10 |