Posts by LegBreak
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Comparing players between eras is always a bit dodgy, but Laver did have the prime of his career cut from his CV during the professional wars.
BTW, can’t understand why Serena Williams is never mentioned in despatches as greatest female tennis player of all time.
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And the Air NZ ad also features the CEO, which is quite cool.
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Yeah a little. I assume you mean like how skateboarders and surfers seem to have their own language.
Yup, and basketballers.
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Yellow card originated in sport, but now gets used in all sorts of places, like parliament.
All sports will have technical terms to describe things (although human wall has been adopted elsewhere too)
I was just making the point that skating seems to have its own language when not actually describing the event itself.
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Offside and yellow card are used in normal English.
Centre Back relates to a position on the field. The dialect up-thread doesn’t actually relate to any technical terms like that.
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Yes.
... but then what sport doesn't?
Fair question.
Football (unless Americans is commenting on it)
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“Root Cause”, used as a verb, is bamboo under the toenails for me.
(BTW, I’m assuming it’s 2 words, but you never know)
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I’m starting to sense this PAS get-together in Dunedin this evening will be a good one.
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I guess tables can also double up as a bed later in the evening?
Re Media7; I enjoyed it so much I almost went out and bought a Gardening Magazine.
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SP; I’m thinking of older pubs. Especially the ones with multiple bars.
So they need corridors, and there must have been a law in the 60s that Corridors in Pubs Must Be Lush.