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So I've been playing some hearty basketball Tuesday nights and I have one particularly noticeable defect as a ballplayer:
It is common to say things like "Good shot!" to complement a player who has made (for instance) a good shot. The nice thing about expressions such as "Good shot!" is they fit nicely in a single breath.
When one of the gentleman made the first shot of a game this evening I said "Auspicious beginning!"
Which did not fit in one breath.
- Aus!
pish!
iss!
be!
gin!
ning!
Do people just think you're weird sometimes? I'm seriously laughing right now.
ReplyDeleteI hope you feel shame deep in your heart.
ReplyDeleteWho were you playing against? The thought of saying that during a basketball game makes me laugh.
ReplyDeleteHard.
The nice thing about plosives is that they're easily reducible to glottals for swifter pronunciation. But now you've learned that from experience.
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ReplyDeleteFortunately, they're all Berkeley grad students (or mostly). Econ and hard science, but surely they can deal with it better than, say,
Okay, I have no idea how to finish that sentence.
Did you ever consider that you may be better suited for croquet? Such language!
ReplyDeleteI would have given up after the third syllable.
ReplyDelete"Econ and hard science, but surely they can deal with it better than, say," ... those soft science grad students who would feel compelled to stop playing and immediately enter into a Freudian-Jungian analysis of why you chose non-traditional latin root language and not traditional germanic root languager for your sports encouragement.
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ReplyDeleteAbsent--
I couldn't have said it better myself. (As proven above.)
Stew--
Nice to meet you; welcome to the blogosphere.
Sarah--
You may be right....
I bet that movie "Church Ball" would have been a lot funnier if you had been the screenwriter.
ReplyDelete"I bet it might have actually been funny," is what I meant to say.
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ReplyDeleteNot even Fred Willard is funny? Fred Willard as bishop seems like a waterproof laugh riot....
Must...find...dictionary....to......understand....funny....word..........looks hard.....must understand.....the humor......
ReplyDeleteHow come the word WORD wasn't in my last comment?
ReplyDeleteRead my comment again and add the word WORD in it, and it's much funnier.
Crap. The one time I try to be funny and I fall flat on my face. Crap.
Who doesn't laugh at Fred Willard? But five minutes of him in an eye patch being his wacky self does not a funny movie make.
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ReplyDeleteFalling on your face in crap is the height of funny.
And I did see a movie once that Fred couldn't save, so I can believe you.