A recent One Big Happy has Ruthie, once again, coping with an expression unfamiliar to her — the negative polarity item (NPI) have the vaguest idea, under the scope of negative n’t in doesn’t have the vaguest idea — by interpreting vaguest as a phonologically close item familiar to her from watching daytime television: Vegas, short for Las Vegas.:
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Now appearing every so often on the USA Network (American cable), an entertaining commercial for the network, touting the “initial-based crime dramas” (like NCIS and CSI) viewable on it, and bursting out in a fountain of initialisms of all sorts (OMG etc.).
I haven’t been able to find a video of the commercial or a transcript of it, but I’m hoping that one or another of these will eventually be available to report on here.
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