Grammar Question of the Day

[magid]

So if there are pronouns, where are all the amateur nouns?


Comments

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

From Calvin and Hobbes..

"What's a pronoun?"
"A noun that's lost it's amateur status."

Or more C&H, on the math geek side..

Calvin: (reading)A bushel is a unit of measure equal to four pecks What's a peck?

Hobbes: A quick smooch

Calvin: Y'know, I'll never understand this math stuff at all

[magid.livejournal.com]

And here I thought I was (somewhat) original, but it turns out I'm in a "Calvin and Hobbes" cartoon... why does this not surprise me overmuch...?

[cellio]

Wrong meaning of "pro". You really want to ask where all the "connouns" are.