Comments | atpolittlebit: Not. A. Verb.

atpolittlebit

Not. A. Verb.

Feb 13, 2006 23:11

Dear Sportscasters:

You are professionals. And regardless of the current usage by the cool kids, 'podium' is Not. A. Verb.

No love,

Me

snerk

Comments 14

blue_ant February 14 2006, 04:18:46 UTC

See, your problem is that you give them too much credit. They aren't professionals. They try to pass themselves off as professionals, but enough of them are former athletes that those that USED to be professionals have forgotten what that meant.

atpolittlebit February 14 2006, 04:27:01 UTC

Heh. True. Make that "supposed to be professionals." Makes me appreciate Dick Button.

blue_ant February 14 2006, 04:29:12 UTC

Makes me appreciate Dick Button.
How is that even POSSIBLE?

HEE.

Also, how'd they use the word "podium" .. I couldn't figure it out.

atpolittlebit February 14 2006, 04:33:27 UTC

Well, Dick Button does speak more or less proper English.

"She's hoping to podium in these games..."

Thread 7

bhadrasvapna February 14 2006, 04:35:27 UTC

It's snowboarding. Dude. What do you expect? Who else to tell us what the prison run aways are doing?

atpolittlebit February 14 2006, 04:39:43 UTC

They're comboing.

cactuswatcher February 14 2006, 05:24:21 UTC

I podium, dude.
you podium, dude.
we podium, dude.
he, she or it podiums, dude.

I think it means doing a triple flip to a sitz.

Oh, well what can you expect from a sport that has 'fakey' as a technical term?

atpolittlebit February 14 2006, 08:25:30 UTC

I'm still being amused that there's an Olympic uniform that manages to look like baggies and an oversized jersey. Heh. And the one commentator who keeps pronouncing "airs" with kinda-two sylllables so it sounds like "errors" as in "that's two huge errors back-to-back." But then, I'm easily amused.

zargon10 February 14 2006, 10:04:09 UTC

What's weird in Dutch is most things are verbs. 'To play tennis' is 'tennissen'. 'to do sports' is 'sporten'. though i was very surprised to learn last night 'to take a test' (test=toets, tests=toetsen) is, you guessed it 'toetsen'. that just sounds so wrong to me! any noun you have in dutch has a verb with it!

dlgood February 15 2006, 03:02:29 UTC

Sportscastering is a very amusing enterprise. People are trying to seem clever by not saying the same thing all the time, and by having there own lingo. This often leads to some crimes against language.