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Declanomous on Dec 2, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The World's Most Efficient Languages (2016)

"You'll never guess who I saw?"

"Who?"

"Elvis"

"Elvis? The Elvis or a Elvis?"

"The Elvis"

The doesn't imply someone is inanimate, it just means that they are a specific one.

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