Archives pour le septembre 2007
Le dernier jour du base-ball, toujours le passe-temps national quoique NASCAR et football, sports brutaux, aient affilé les garçons de l'été dans la popularité.
Le base-ball est maintenant et pour toujours sera le plus lyrique et folklorique de tous les sports. Qui n'a pas entendu ou n'a pas lu la poésie au sujet « de Casey puissant » ?
Mais j'ai eu l'honneur et le privilège aujourd'hui de l'accord dedans à l'annonceur légendaire de base-ball [étiquette] Vin Scully [/tag], qui a cité ceci du commissaire long-allé de base-ball [étiquette] Bart Giamatti [/tag], l'homme qui a combattu [étiquette] Peter Rose [/tag] et a gagné :
Il brise votre coeur. Il est conçu pour briser votre coeur. Le jeu commence au printemps, quand tout autrement commence encore, et il fleurit en été, remplissant après-midis et soirées, et puis dès que les pluies froides viendront, il vous cesse et part de faire face à la chute seule.
« Juste ainsi, » en tant que mes ancêtres irlandais dirait.
Juste il y a quelques minutes car j'ai renversé plus d'à ESPN pour attraper Phillies-Brave le jeu de base-ball, les annonceurs a tourné la discussion à la dispute de dimanche entre San Diego Padre [étiquette] Milton Bradley [/tag] et un arbitre, que l'arbitre a été depuis suspendu.
En référence à l'arbitre, le commentateur [étiquette] Orel Hershiser [/tag] dit ce qui a obtenu l'ump suspendu n'était pas simplement son utilisation de blasphème mais du fait qu'il était « personnel et intense. »
Puisque je suis consacré à préciser des trompeurs de l'anglais ici, je dois proposer que je croie Hershiser signifié « aigu. »
Je doute que l'intensité obtienne un arbitre suspendu.
[étiquette] Jenni Carlson [/tag], un chroniqueur pour L'Oklahoman dans Stillwater, l'Okla., maison à l'état de l'Oklahoma, se trouve sous le feu pour courir un article critique du stratège déposé de l'équipe du football.
Carlson a évidemment dit que la dégradation du stratège était due à l'attitude mentale plutôt qu'aux qualifications physiques. Cet entraîneur causé du football [étiquette] Mike Gundy [/tag] la dénoncent et appellent l'article trois quarts « la fiction. »
(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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