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I'm Bob Garfield with Mike Volo, and today, episode number 44, titled Man on the Street,

wherein we talk to the world's most ambitious cataloger of Big Bang.

You'll see what it was doing there in just a minute.

Hey, Mikey. Hey, Bob. How you doing? Splendid. Thank you. And yourself?

I'm great. I'm great. First off, I want to read a couple of emails about our episode that we

call demonstratively speaking in which we talked about the various ways that demonstratives,

this, that these and those can be used.

The most common, of course, is to refer to something either near or far that is in the room

and that you're pointing out to somebody else, this table, that chair.

Another way is to refer back to something that was previously mentioned in the sentence,

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