Archivo para el septiembre de 2007
El día pasado del béisbol, aún el pasatiempo nacional aun cuando NASCAR y el balompié, deportes brutales, han afilado a muchachos del verano en renombre.
El béisbol es y será por siempre el el más lírico y folkloric ahora de todos los deportes. ¿Quién no ha oído ni ha leído el poema sobre “Casey poderoso”?
Pero tenía el honor y el privilegio hoy de templar adentro al anunciador legendario del béisbol [etiqueta] Vin Scully [/tag], que cotizó esto de la comisión largo-ida del béisbol [etiqueta] Bart Giamatti [/tag], el hombre que luchó [etiqueta] a Pete Rose [/tag] y ganó:
Rompe su corazón. Se diseña para romper su corazón. El juego comienza en el resorte, cuando todo comienza otra vez, y florece en el verano, llenando las tardes y las tardes, y entonces tan pronto como vengan las lluvias desapasibles, le para y sale para hacer frente a la caída sola.
“Apenas así pues,” como mis antepasados irlandeses diría.
Apenas hace algunos minutos como moví de un tirón encima a ESPN para coger el juego del béisbol de Phillies-Braves, los anunciadores dieron vuelta a la discusión al altercation de domingo entre San Diego Padre [etiqueta] Milton Bradley [/tag] y árbitro, a que han suspendido el árbitro desde entonces.
Refiriendo al árbitro, el comentarista [etiqueta] Orel Hershiser [/tag] dicho qué consiguió el ump suspendido no era justo su uso de la blasfemia sino del hecho de que era “personal y conmovedor.”
Puesto que me dedican a precisar a abusadores de la lengua inglesa aquí, debo sugerir que crea Hershiser significado “acentuado.”
Dudo que el patetismo conseguiría un árbitro suspendido.
[etiqueta] Jenni Carlson [/tag], columnista para El Oklahoman en Stillwater, Oklahoma, hogar al estado de Oklahoma, se encuentra bajo fuego para funcionar un artículo crítico del estratega depuesto del equipo del balompié.
Carlson dijo evidentemente que el demotion del estratega era debido a la actitud mental más bien que a las habilidades físicas. Este coche causado del balompié [etiqueta] Mike Gundy [/tag] denunci la y llama el artículo tres cuartos “la ficción.”
(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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