Hm. My lexical intuition says tells me that "Who should Josh teach..." demands a specific answer rather than a category answer... an answer like "ratesjul" rather than an answer like "students".
But I can't prove it. And in any case, I'll grant you that in making students a "what" I do something of a disservice to the individual students being referenced... supposing there are any such individual referents, which I'm not sure of one way or the other.
But mostly, it was a reference back to a conversation I (and, I imagine, a lot of other people) had with Josh in my college days, wherein when asked what he taught Josh reliably replied "students".
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Date: 2005-02-08 06:07 am (UTC)But I can't prove it. And in any case, I'll grant you that in making students a "what" I do something of a disservice to the individual students being referenced... supposing there are any such individual referents, which I'm not sure of one way or the other.
But mostly, it was a reference back to a conversation I (and, I imagine, a lot of other people) had with Josh in my college days, wherein when asked what he taught Josh reliably replied "students".