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Kevin Wang at 21:47, 9 November 2021

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Kevin Wang: Created page with " Certain pieces of information must always be provided exactly to receive points because '''things have names'''. In quizbowl, it is taken for granted that publis..."

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Created page with "<onlyinclude> Certain pieces of information must always be provided exactly to receive points because '''things have names'''. In quizbowl, it is taken for granted that publis..."

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Certain pieces of information must always be provided exactly to receive points because '''things have names'''. In quizbowl, it is taken for granted that published works must be referred to by their exact name, with both [[NAQT]] and [[ACF]] reflecting this standard in their rules regarding [[acceptability]] of answers. The largest set of things in this category are works of [[literature]] as well as of non-fiction, but it is often used to refer to concepts which have accepted names in their respective fields as well.</onlyinclude>

{{Right quote box|Player: "Ah, I know this! It's the, uh, thing where put compounds in a liquid and they put a voltage and they shoot out! And it forms a cone, and it makes things have charge, what is it!"

Moderator: "Alas, things have names - the answer is electrospray ionization."}}
This phrase is often used facetiously to describe the situation when a [[player]] is able to provide only a [[description]] of what is being asked for.
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===Reified phrases===
The word "reified" or "reification" is often used to describe phrases which "have a name". This is something of a misuse, as the word literally means "the consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete".<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reification</ref>

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 Moderator: "And that's time. Alas, '''things have names''' - the answer is electrospray ionization."}}
 This phrase is often used facetiously to describe situations when a [[player]] is able to provide only a [[description]] of what is being asked for. In most cases this is due to a lack of sufficient [[knowledge]] by the player, but it is occasionally an indication that a specific title has been given too much prominence and should not have been necessary to receive points.
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 {{Right quote box|Player: "Ah, I know this! It's the, uh, thing where put compounds in a liquid and they put a voltage and they shoot out! And it forms a cone, and it makes things have charge, what is it-"
-Moderator: "And that's time. Alas, things have names - the answer is electrospray ionization."}}
+Moderator: "And that's time. Alas, '''things have names''' - the answer is electrospray ionization."}}
 This phrase is often used facetiously to describe situations when a [[player]] is able to provide only a [[description]] of what is being asked for. In most cases this is due to a lack of sufficient [[knowledge]] by the player, but it is occasionally an indication that a specific title has been given too much prominence and should not have been necessary to receive points.
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-Certain pieces of information must always be provided exactly to receive points because '''things have names'''. In quizbowl, it is taken for granted that published works must be referred to by their exact name, with both [[NAQT]] and [[ACF]] reflecting this standard in their rules regarding [[acceptability]] of answers. The largest set of things in this category are works of [[literature]] as well as of non-fiction, but it is often used to refer to concepts which have accepted names in their respective fields as well.</onlyinclude>
+Certain pieces of information must always be provided exactly to receive points because '''things have names'''. In quizbowl, it is taken for granted that published works must be referred to by their exact titles, with both [[NAQT]] and [[ACF]] reflecting this standard in their rules regarding [[acceptability]] of answers. The largest set of things in this category are works of [[literature]] as well as of non-fiction, but it is often used to refer to concepts which have accepted names in their respective fields as well.</onlyinclude>
-{{Right quote box|Player: "Ah, I know this! It's the, uh, thing where put compounds in a liquid and they put a voltage and they shoot out! And it forms a cone, and it makes things have charge, what is it!"
+{{Right quote box|Player: "Ah, I know this! It's the, uh, thing where put compounds in a liquid and they put a voltage and they shoot out! And it forms a cone, and it makes things have charge, what is it-"
 Moderator: "And that's time. Alas, things have names - the answer is electrospray ionization."}}
-This phrase is often used facetiously to describe the situation when a [[player]] is able to provide only a [[description]] of what is being asked for.
+This phrase is often used facetiously to describe situations when a [[player]] is able to provide only a [[description]] of what is being asked for. In most cases this is due to a lack of sufficient [[knowledge]] by the player, but it is occasionally an indication that a specific title has been given too much prominence and should not have been necessary to receive points.
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-===Reified phrases===
+===Things===
 The word "reified" or "reification" is often used to describe phrases which "have a name". This is something of a misuse, as the word literally means "the consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete".<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reification</ref>