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| 280.1 | | DECWET::SHUSTER | Keep Seattle Clean---Wash Wash. | Mon Dec 01 1986 13:55 | 5 |
| ...and Cashman handles the puck at center ice, but loses it, as
he couldn't capitalize on that play...
(For a while, "capitalize" was the favorite word of the Boston Bruins
TV announcers. They used it every five minutes.)
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| 280.2 | It Used top be Worse | INK::KALLIS | Support Hallowe'en | Mon Dec 01 1986 14:31 | 9 |
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...Just be glad you weren't a sports fan listening to a Dizzy Dean
coverage of a baseball game. For instance, he loved the word
"nonchalantly," and used it in new and creative ways like,
"And there goes [name of baseball player] walking nonchalantly back
to the dugout is dis_gust_!"
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 280.3 | ASSIST as a noun ? | RAYNAL::OSMAN | and silos to fill before I feep, and silos to fill before I feep | Tue Dec 02 1986 16:03 | 8 |
| In hockey, I often hear things like:
Bruno is credited with an ASSIST
Was "assist" a bona fide noun before the hockey broadcasters got ahold
of it ?
/Eric
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| 280.4 | Please pass the dictionary. | APTECH::RSTONE | | Wed Dec 03 1986 17:34 | 6 |
| Re: .3
Yes, check your dictionary.
And while you have it open, please look up the definition for "ahold".
I can't seem to find it in mine.
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| 280.5 | Now, now, now. | ERIS::CALLAS | So many ratholes, so little time | Fri Dec 05 1986 10:28 | 3 |
| "Assist" is indeed a noun, but "ahold" is obviously a typo.
Jon
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| 280.6 | More sports horrors | THEBAY::GOODMAN | That was Zen, this is Tao | Thu Apr 09 1992 18:18 | 21 |
| So, not to resurrect a dead note or anything, but...
My personal (least) favorite is the use of the present tense for the
past conditional. (Someone must know the real names of these tenses,
I'm sure I have them wrong...) I don't know if it's only in California
that sportscasters talk this way, or if I just started noticing it
after moving out here.
As in:
If he doesn't catch that ball, it's a triple for Dawson.
Instead of:
If he hadn't caught that ball, it would have been a triple for Dawson.
This is after the play being described has been completed. (I suppose
it would sound correct if the play was currently happening, but there's
usually not enough time during the play to say it.)
Roy
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| 280.7 | | STAR::CANTOR | Have pun, will babble. | Thu Apr 09 1992 20:46 | 3 |
| They don't talk that way, the listeners have to think.
Dave C.
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| 280.8 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | bad wiring. That was probably it. Very bad. | Fri Apr 10 1992 02:59 | 10 |
| Roy Goodman writes:
>This is after the play being described has been completed.
Of course, Mr. Goodman means to write:
This was after the play that was described had been completed.
For comparison, I will never engage in such tense abuse.
:-)
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| 280.9 | Present tense implying continued occurrences? | KID2::GOODMAN | That was Zen, this is Tao | Fri May 15 1992 20:21 | 15 |
| > Roy Goodman writes:
> >This is after the play being described has been completed.
>
> Of course, Mr. Goodman means to write:
> This was after the play that was described had been completed.
Now that's interesting. What I meant was that I have heard sportscasters
speak this way, and they will probably go on speaking this way in the future.
Saying "They say this after the play..." sounds correct to me, implying current
usage. Since this is present tense, and what I wrote was present tense, was
I wrong?
Yours for continual lexical improvement,
Roy
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| 280.10 | | JIT081::DIAMOND | bad wiring. That was probably it. Very bad. | Sun May 17 1992 02:55 | 7 |
| I'm teasing. That's why my meta-statements
> Roy Goodman writes:
and
> Of course, Mr. Goodman means to write:
are written in the present tense.
-- Norman Diamond
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