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| 435.1 | Neither | SUPER::KENAH | ROCK-> You are here <-HARD_PLACE | Tue Nov 17 1987 18:29 | 17 |
| Neither -- Red Sox is used as an adjective, as in:
Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs.
A friend of mine told me a story about the '86 series. He was watching
the game in a tavern in semi-rural Massachusetts... he's from New
York, so he was rooting (quietly) for the Mets. He enjoyed listening
to the locals' descriptions of the players.
In the first inning, MacNamara was a "genius", and Bill Buckner
was a "gamer."
By the ninth, Mac was "that bleepin' mick b*stahd",
and Buckner was "that bleepin' crippled b*stahd"!
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| 435.2 | Possessive noun | CLT::WIECHMANN | Jim the Warrior | Wed Nov 18 1987 08:37 | 11 |
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I always thought of that as a posessive noun:
Red Sox' third baseman Wade Boggs.
Brewers' third baseman Paul Molitor.
Maybe this should go in the note on phrases that look weird when you
write them . . . .
-Jim
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| 435.3 | | HOMSIC::DUDEK | Call me Dr. Brevity | Wed Nov 18 1987 10:39 | 6 |
| Grammatically, I don't think one would be best advised to "take
the word" of sports announcers.
(little pun there, eh?)
Spd
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| 435.4 | Lone Soxman | CHIC::PETERS | E Unibus Plurum | Wed Nov 18 1987 10:43 | 13 |
| > Please settle a bet. What is ONE player on the Boston Red Sox called?
>A Red Sox? Or a Red Sock?
Meanwhile back at the original question ....
One player in the Boston Red Sox team is called:
a Boston Red Sox Player
I don't know what the other one is called. :-)
Steve
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| 435.5 | Sexist! | COMICS::DEMORGAN | Richard De Morgan, UK CSC/CS | Wed Nov 18 1987 11:03 | 1 |
| Re .4: "Lone Soxman"? Shouldn't that be "Lone Soxperson"?
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| 435.6 | Talk to the Sox... | PSTJTT::TABER | Alimentary, my dear Watson | Wed Nov 18 1987 11:20 | 5 |
| > -< Sexist! >-
>
> Re .4: "Lone Soxman"? Shouldn't that be "Lone Soxperson"?
No, they don't allow women to play on the Red Sox.
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| 435.7 | must be a law against it | COMICS::DEMORGAN | Richard De Morgan, UK CSC/CS | Wed Nov 18 1987 12:13 | 4 |
| Really? Isn't there a law against it? Women play cricket here
(and football and rugby come to think of it), but then only girls
play baseball here (actually its called rounders and is rather like
softball) :-)
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| 435.8 | you're sexist and you didn't even know it | VIDEO::OSMAN | type video::user$7:[osman]eric.six | Wed Nov 18 1987 17:00 | 17 |
| You're sexist too ! you referred to a
Red Sox person
Why not a
Red Sox Perdaughter
??
See? Sexist!
You need to be more careful. How about
Red Sox Perkid
/Eric
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| 435.9 | De Charybde en Scylla | YIPPEE::LIRON | | Thu Nov 19 1987 03:33 | 19 |
| > You need to be more careful. How about
> Red Sox Perkid
The "kid" bit would be ok, but "Per" is totally unacceptable
since it means father in French (P�re). It would be a male
chauvinist provocation.
Similarly Merkid must be excluded.
How about
Red Sox Parentkid
roger
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| 435.10 | Unfair to invertebrates! | CHIC::PETERS | E Unibus Plurum | Thu Nov 19 1987 04:15 | 20 |
| > Red Sox Perkid
> Red Sox Parentkid
You are all absolutely correct. The term 'Lone Soxman" which I offered was
thoughtlessly provocative. All other attempts to not upset anyone have
neglected the fact that they are offensive to other living creatures, such as
worms and lice. Indeed a term which restricts itself to living organisms
excludes the vast majority of matter, which is non-organic.
I therefore propose that a completely abstract term is the only suitable course
to follow, and so I beg to suggest that the appropriate term is:
Lone Sox Entity
(with apologies to nonentities)
Steve
By the way, who is the other player?
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| 435.11 | | PASTIS::MONAHAN | I am not a free number, I am a telephone box | Thu Nov 19 1987 22:22 | 6 |
| Until this note I just thought Red Sox was something that Boston
patriots shouted about, something like the Union Jack. Now I learn
that it is a category of entities.
Can you fly an entity from a flagpole? Or does that count as disrespect
for entities too?
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| 435.12 | Long live A & C. | GAOV06::POMPHRETT | | Wed Nov 25 1987 18:15 | 3 |
| Re: .10
Who is ANother player, not THE other. I think he's on first!
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| 435.13 | A pair of Sox? | CHIC::PETERS | E Unibus Plurum | Thu Nov 26 1987 09:00 | 12 |
| Re .-1
The base note asked:
> Please settle a bet. What is ONE player on the Boston Red Sox called?
>A Red Sox? Or a Red Sock?
Which made me wonder who the other player was. Now you tell me there are more
than two players in the team. How many Sox do you have over there?
Steve
:-)
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| 435.14 | Two pair | HOMSIC::DUDEK | Call me Dr. Brevity | Tue Dec 01 1987 19:34 | 7 |
| RE .13
<<How many Sox do you have over there?>>
Two: The Red Sox and the White Sox
Spd (Chicagoan)
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