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NASCARおよびフットボールの残酷なスポーツが、人気の夏の男の子を研いだのに野球の最後の日、まだ国民の娯楽。
野球は今、永久にすべてのスポーツの最も叙情的そしてfolkloricである。 だれが「強大なCasey」についての詩を聞かなかったし、または読まなかったか。
しかし私は長行った野球長官[札]からのこれをBart Giamatti [/tag]引用した伝説の野球アナウンサー[札]に調整の名誉そして特権をVin Scully [/tag]、[札]ピートローズ[/tag]戦い、勝った人今日有した:
それはあなたの中心を壊す。 あなたの中心を壊すことを設計する。 ゲームはばねに他のすべてが再度始まる、夏に活気付きとき、始まり、午後および夕方を満たす、次に冷たい雨が来るとすぐ、だけ落下に直面するために停止し、去る。
「ちょうどそう」、私のアイルランドの祖先として言う。
0コメントする Philliesブレーブスの野球の試合をつかまえるために私がESPNに弾いたと同時にちょうど数分前にアナウンサーはサンディエゴPadre [札]ミルトンブラッドリー[/tag]およびアンパイヤがその後中断されていたアンパイヤの間で日曜日の口論に議論を回した。
得たものがアンパイヤを参照して、解説者[札] Orel Hershiser [/tag]言った中断されたumpは公正「個人的、心に訴えた」。という事実冒涜の彼の使用ではなかったが、
私が英語の濫用者をここに指摘することに捧げられるので、私は私が先の尖ったHershiserを「意味されて」。信じることを提案しなければならない
私は辛辣がアンパイヤを中断されて得ることを疑う。
[札] Jenni Carlson [/tag]、コラムニストのための Oklahoman Stillwaterでは、オクラホマのオクラホマの国家への家は動くことのための火の下で、彼女自身を見つける フットボール・チームの解任されたクォーターバックの重大な記事.
Carlsonは明らかにクォーターバックのdemotionが物理的な技術よりもむしろ心的態度のためにそうなったものだったことを言った。 この引き起こされたフットボールのコーチ[彼女を公然と非難し、記事4分の3を呼ぶ札]マイクGundy [/tag] 「フィクション」。
(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.
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.
