Archiv für September 2007
Der letzte Tag des Baseballs, noch der nationale Zeitvertreib, obwohl NASCAR und Fußball, brutaler Sport, die Jungen des Sommers in der Popularität umrandet haben.
Baseball ist jetzt und für immer wird von allem Sport lyrical und das folkloric sein. Wer hat das Gedicht über „mächtigen Casey“ gehört nicht oder gelesen?
Aber ich hatte die Ehre und das Privileg heute von innen abstimmen zum legendären Baseballansager [Umbau] Vin Scully [/tag], der dieses von lang-gegangenem Baseballbeauftragtem [Umbau] Bart Giamatti [/tag] veranschlug, der Mann, der [Umbau] Peter Rose [/tag] kämpfte und gewann:
Es bricht Ihr Herz. Es ist entworfen, um Ihr Herz zu brechen. Das Spiel fängt im Früjahr an, wenn alles sonst wieder anfängt, und es blüht am Sommer und füllt die Nachmittage und die Abende, und dann, sobald die kalten Regen kommen, stoppt es und verläßt Sie, um den alleinfall gegenüberzustellen.
„Gerade so,“ als meine irischen Vorfahren würde sagen.
Gerade einigen Minuten, während ich rüber zu ESPN, um mich leicht schlug das Phillies-Braves Baseballspiel zu verfangen, drehten die Ansager die Diskussion zur Sonntag Auseinandersetzung zwischen San Diego Padre [Umbau] Milton Bradley [/tag] und ein Schiedsrichter, den Schiedsrichter seit dem vor verschoben worden ist.
Auf den Schiedsrichter bezugnehmend, war Kommentator [Umbau] Orel Hershiser [/tag] besagt was das ump verschoben erhielt, nicht sein Gebrauch von Weltlichkeit aber der Tatsache gerecht, daß sie war „persönlich und poignant.“
Da ich Verführer der englischen Sprache hier unterstreichen eingeweiht werde, muß ich vorschlagen, daß ich glaube Hershiser bedeutet „spitz.“
Ich zweifele, daß Poignancy einen Schiedsrichter verschoben erhalten würde.
[Umbau] Jenni Carlson [/tag], ein Feuilletonist für Das Oklahoman in Stillwater findet sich Okla., Haus zum Oklahoma Zustand, unter Feuer für das Laufen ein Artikel kritisch gegenüber dem abgesetzten Quarterback der Fußballmannschaft.
Carlson sagte offenbar, daß die Degradierung des Quarterbacks an der Geisteshaltung anstatt an den körperlichen Fähigkeiten lag. Dieser verursachte Fußballtrainer [Umbau] Mike Gundy [/tag] denunzieren sie und benennen den Artikel Dreiviertel „Erfindung.“
(The tirade was covered by the media, and various videos of Gundy’s outburst are viewable on YouTube.)
Carlson, however, stood her ground and demanded that Gundy point out the parts that were inaccurate. "I don’t have to," he shot back.
I say good for Carlson for standing up to the bully. She won’t let go now, as she has another article out today, this one critical of Gundy.
Go, girl, go.
Read all about it.
Answer: When you’re sitting at a bar having lunch and a loudmouth next to you is trying to score on the woman half his age next to him. His English was grammatically fine, but I felt sorry for the young woman’s having to endure all his literate and literal nonsense.
Solution: Don’t eat lunch at bar counters; take a table by yourself.
I swore I wasn’t going to bring up the topic of Miss Teen South Carolina’s bumbling question response, in which she concocted the NotPhrase U.S. Americans and generally managed to show an ignorance not only of English usage but also of world history. To wit:
I personally believe the U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, uh…people out there in our nation don’t have maps, and, uh, I believe that our education like such as South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and…I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., err, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future for our….
After hearing this the first time, I just felt bad for [tag]Lauren Caitlin Upton[/tag], but as time has gone on, her utterances have burrowed their way into our culture. A local radio station here in Los Angeles even uses an imitator to run promos, urging "U.S. Americans" to tune in for this and that show. It’s funny.
Now that she’s become legend, I’ll weigh in by offernig a video of her speech. Enjoy:
(If the Flash doesn’t work, here’s a link to click.)
In court testimony, New York Knicks General Manager [tag]Isiah Thomas[/tag] answered a question about the use of the word bitch in descriing or addressing a black woman.
Basically, he testified that it was less egregious if a black man used the "B" word on a black woman than if a white man did.
Now, to my way of thinking, this is true in certain usages, as black people often use the "N" word in addressing each other and certainly use the "B" word in rap music. However, there is a whole brouhaha erupting over his testimony, with many commentators calling for Isiah’s head.
I thik this is definitely going overboard.
Interestingly enough, leaving this controversy aside, a man named [tag]Isaiah Thomas[/tag] was considered one of the greatest publishers of 18th century America and was a contemporary of fellow publisher [tag]Benjamin Franklin[/tag].
I have to apologize for my inactivity on the blog here, but I’ve been on a quick but arduous jaunt to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
It was in the latter city that I heard an utterance of "mines," confirming my fears that this vermin has infested the entire country.
In America, grammar does indeed suck, at least in terms of its practitioners.
While I was driving to lunch, I turned on ESPN radio when two sports jocks were discussing some now-long-forgotten topic, but one interchange stands out even after the topic has been forgotten.
Sports jock number one complained about "hyperbole" on a certain sports topic. A few minutes later, his partner lamented the "hyperbosity" in sports talk.
Now, I’m assuming sports jock number two was combining hyperbole and verbosity.
So, there you go, a new NotWord–hyperbosity.
The basic problem with people’s learning English, even those born in an erstwhile English-speaking country such as the United States, is that they no longer learn their grammar and spelling through reading great works of literature and doing rigorous classroom exercises but through media and fast food exposure.
Maybe I’ll call my book Fast Food English instead of Grammar Sucks, a title which someone has already purloined. How about just Fast English? Does that convey my meaning? Nah, it sounds like a promise to learn English quickly.
Anyway, as I was grading more university-level papers today, I was shocked at how many people with otherwise sound mental capacities cannot spell through and indeed don’t even know the word exists.
No doubt the cop-out idiots at the Oxford English Dictionary will soon–if they haven’t already done so–recognize thru as a proper English word.
My new word dooficity is a natural derivative of doofus/doofae (singular and plural). It refers to the utterances and general thinking (oxymoron?) of doofae.
Who are the doofae subject to uttering doofisms (another word of mine)?
Politicians, actors, celebrities and the like, plus anyone who actually pays attention to these people and what they say and believe in.
Unfortunately, that covers a huge swatch of humanity.
Doofae of the world, unite. There really aren’t a whole lot of non-doofae left.
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