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Hi Bert! I was one of your students a couple of years ago; didn't get to give as much to the course as I would have liked due to ongoing illness, but had an amazing three years nonetheless. Thanks for playing your part in that and for inspiring so many of us - I know that a perhaps disproportionate amount of your students have gone on to postgraduate study, myself included.

My question is something I like to ask a lot of professors because of the sheer disparity in responses: how do you find teaching? Would you rather be able to research full-time, finding first-year undergraduates annoying and feeling stabby when you see them fall into the traps of linguistics myths? Or do you enjoy seeing them progress? Has a student (of any level) of yours ever come up with something so novel that it made you rethink something?

Potentially career-ending question right there :p

If you could have dinner with Jesus or Gandhi, what would you order?

Thanks, I wasn't sure if you'd recognize one of your own one-liners :p you're definitely the highlight of that show (my younger sister is a big fan and can't believe you're talking to people right now). I've loved you since Smart Guy. Keep up the good work!

(Context for the curious: it's a line of Tahj's from Baby Daddy that he delivered perfectly and had me cracking up - not a fan of the show but Tahj is pretty great on it)