Do these jeans make me look fat???
In class we have been talking about deictics and I just remembered one instance of spatial deictics, specifically gestural from that silly newlywed show on ABC, "Here Come the Newlyweds". One wife was talking about asking her husband if "these jeans make her look fat", of course the use of the word these is gestural because it requires the hearer to be in the room to see which jeans she is talking about. Now, I am sure he probably didn't even look up to see which jeans she was talking about before he replied but it wouldn't have mattered anyway because his response was, "No, it's the fat that makes you look fat". Brutal, huh??? BUT don't we all ask these questions at one point and not really want to know the answer.
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