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 (10[1])examples of this part of speech (10[1])are taken from other parts of speech. Members of this part of speech in English are the only ones where click consonants can occur. (-5[1])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 (10[2])and exclamations like “ouch”? ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: interjections [accept cognitive or emotive interjections; accept primary or secondary interjections; accept “Interjections: The universal yet neglected part of speech”; prompt on exclamations or expletives before mention]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Kunaal Chandrashekaras rational as the square root of two power bottomsModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha8610
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks upYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit9210
Ishan JoshiRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere116-5
Colin VeeversCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken14110
Benjamin ChapmanSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange14110
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers1460

Summary

2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%0%100%146.00
2024 ARGOS Online03/22/2025Y3100%0%0%109.67
2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis03/22/2025Y367%0%100%146.00
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y580%0%20%115.00
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y367%0%33%141.50
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y6100%33%17%117.67
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%0%33%126.33