I found this via @danielpink and the brainpickings.org site. We have really begun to dissect sentences in 2nd grade. Today we isolated nouns that refer only to people.
This video describes all the famous people who have been “objectified” as nouns throughout history. It was created by NPR’s Robert Krulwich and Adam Cole.
The post can be found here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/10/03/people-who-became-nouns/
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