Question
In Language in Literature, Roman Jakobson compared our unawareness of our metalingual operations to a remark about this action. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this action that Monsieur Jourdain is shocked to learn he’s been performing for forty years without knowing it in a celebrated exchange from Molière’s play Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (“zhawn-tee-YUM”).
ANSWER: speaking in prose [accept any answers about using prose]
[10e] Before learning that he speaks in prose, Jourdain pretends to understand the Philosophy Master’s quotes in this language. Macaronic passages in Molière’s plays incorporate this language’s “dog” form.
ANSWER: Latin [accept Dog Latin]
[10h] Real philosophers often insult each other by quoting from the pseudo-Latin finale of The Imaginary Invalid, in which Géronte claims that poppies cause sleep because they have this property with a two-word name.
ANSWER: dormitive virtue [or virtus dormitiva; or dormitive principle]
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 12.67 | 100% | 20% | 7% |
Data
| AMOGH QUIZ HACK? 英雄联盟 400 PPG 24 TUH | Read slowly: A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A Read quickly: A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Charlotte's Moderately Successful Team | Lying on a Mattress at Lou’s Apartment in Pilsen, Chicago | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| when you look this good, you don’t have to know anything | First Cause, First Cause, make me young! | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| sticking out your guyot for the ridge push; you're so seafloor spread, you're so fracture zone | I’ll take a quiet 10 / A handshake of CO (Chicago Open) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| LMM's LLM MLM | Punished "Venom" BHSU | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Les Missourables | Berkeley Mafia and the Chicago Boy | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Oldest Men in the World | Lisan al-Quib | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Mindgoblin of Little Hobbes | var merchants | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NJTRANSit (and anwen, I guess) | SAYYID QUTB, DRIVING THE LONGEST CAR YOU’VE EVER SEEN THROUGH TAHRIR SQUARE | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Galvanized Square Steen and Eco-Friendly Wood Vermeer | NJTRANSit (and bobby, i guess) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Dyatlov Passement incident | We Need New Names | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| BHSU B | The Empire Bikes Back | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| genAI this, genAI that, have you found your 真爱 yet | The Jeam Team | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| There are buzzable clues everywhere for those with eyes to see | Are You There, Chat? It's Me, Margaret | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| A Nervy Liberal Nanny Hence | it's the great pumpkinification objection, charlie brown | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |