2008 Olympics Open Thread Day 5

Moldova won the decision... On countback, but it finished 1-1. :-P

I had to google that. Is that a man mad river?

Yes, it is. Canoing and Kayaking are different though.

Then again, we have a chance! We trailed 17-12 in the deciding game, but now it's 18-17 to GB! The Chinese do not like it...

It went 19-17, then 19-18, Emms missed a smash to go 20-18, it went 19-19, but now it's 20-19 GB!

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSS! The team were fatigued, we trailed 17-12, and we won 21-19! GB into the Quarter Finals! :-D

Nadal won 6-1 6-2. Federer now on court against someone from El Salvador... So he should go through.

Big team battle between Australia and Germany for gold, currently the Germans have a lead of 1 fence, so there's plenty to play for with another round of show jumping after this.

A bad round for the Italians, a counting round too, so Britain and Italy have their gap maintained. Britain's next counting rider out now.

A clear round for Great Britain thanks to Tina Cook! All we need is a clear from Mary King, and we'll be almost home and hosed in the bronze medal position.

4 to add for the Australians - 1st in the team at the moment, but here comes a German now...

4 faults, but the Germans are now in 1st place in the team event, and she leads individually but there are many riders to come. Germany are 1 fence ahead of the Australians (basically). Great Britain well ahead of the Italians for the bronze.

Time faults for a Frenchman, and Tina Cook moves up for the Brits, on course for 11th at the moment, at worst 2 fences behind the medals.

It has to be said that this is the biggest crowd I've seen at any stage of the Olympics so far. The showjumping arena is full to capacity, there must be 10,000 watching.

Clear round for the leading American, goes into the lead in the individual.

Germany win the team event, Australia 2nd, but a Bronze for Great Britain!

Just won another bronze medal, this time third in the Individual Three Day Event. That's bronze number 2 for Great Britain today in the showjumping!

And Gina Miles won silver for the United States.

Well, that linked to the man's team, but I don't know how to get the women's teams. :-(

It would be {{fbw|USA}}, but I don't believe we have any women's national team pages.

Thanks.

The US women's team should send something really nice to the Japanese women, who just gifted them a brilliant opportunity to medal.

Medal is not a verb... Unless you mean they're interfering with the women's football competition. But if they are, I wouldn't think you'd like to point it out. :-)

The US team has an opportunity to win a medal.

I'm getting annoyed by that now, our commentators keep saying it...

They just showed on the Kayaking on NBC. Togo won its first ever Olympic medal as Benjamin Boukpeti won the bronze in the K1 event. Congrats!

–verb (used with object)

3. to decorate or honor with a medal.
–verb (used without object)

4. to receive a medal, esp. in a sporting event: He medaled in three of four races.

^ Dictionary.com

I've looked in all the dictionaries I have here (not online), and it doesn't appear in those. This must be one of those American things then...

It seems to me that the qualifications to be recognized as an actual word are becoming more lax year after year. Or...is that the way the english language has always evolved and modern communication tools, such as the internet, are just speeding up the process.

Every year there's always a few articles about the dumb words they add...this year it was "Ginormous"

1979, then? My dictionaries are old, mine was published in 1984, so that could explain it. Actually, I believe the Internet age has sped up the English language changing into American English. If you look on signs in the UK about trains, you'll see "station", or "railway station". Yet in colloquial terms, nearly everybody now says "train station", which is acknowledged as the Americanism. People also say airplane over here now, instead of aeroplane. People nearly always use "z", when we use "s", e.g. recognised instead of recognized. There are numerous other examples, and in my opinion, it's all your fault! :-P

Ginormous is a stupid word. The origin was blatantly one of those words you make up, in this case, they mixed Gigantic, and Enormous. Words like that should never be encouraged, in my opinion.

Prior to the internet and everyone having a TV a word like Ginormous would have had to have been used for many years and by a ginormous amount of people before it was added to the dictionary. Nowadays a word can become widespread and commonly used in a short time. See: Truthiness. Although I am a huge fan of truthiness.

How long did it take "Ain't" to get in the dictionary? But, "ginormous breezes right on in.

Gigantic came from Giant and Titanic mashed together, Alex.

Face it, English is facked up. You can't fight the tide. Every word in English has two or more meanings and 90% of the words in our everyday vocabulary were stolen and fabricated from other languages.

But 'Ginormous' is positutely one of them there mosterly stupiditious of words, indeedy do.

Harold and Kumar gave us "Hypocritizer"

Will you guys STOP FIGHTING??? FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! So Immature!! Stop it, Stop it already!!! I can only take so much of this!!! I may have 'misremembered' the point of this comment.

Truthiness was a word. But people stopped using it, in favour of truthfulness. Now thanks to you lot, I'm reading, it's back again, and it means something else.

I'm not denying that language evolves over time, it's just annoying that our language is evolving into yours. :-P

I like to make up my own rules Manny, when there are options as to your choice of word. For example, you can use eldest, or oldest, when referring to a person. But you must use oldest if it's non-human. I like to insist on using eldest in the human situation, rather than oldest. Purely to differentiate, and to be honest, show off. :-P Most of the time though, people think that there is a choice between which words you use at certain times. However, it tends to be people not knowing the rule. For example, less and fewer. I heard yesterday people insisting that there were less people than they thought, when it should be fewer people, because people are countable. But that's my game, if there is a genuine case of an option, I make up rules just for the sake of it, because I'm cool like that. :-P

Another pet hate, people who (not people that...) "try and" do things, when they really mean they're going to "try to" do things. You wouldn't try not and do something, you'd try not to do something. If people just thought...

guess its time to switch to SillónGM

Alex, I agree stupid people are annoying... especially because there's so damned many of them. But I can tolerate uneducated people for this reason - a proper education is a matter of experience, not being "technically correct" or not.

Iff eye kan undurstand whut dey r tri ying too sae, than watt's their two bytch abowt?

Message given, message recieved; SUCCESS!

Take that, Queen's English!!!

I just don't like it. :-P Bringing this back onto topic... Maybe this should become an Olympic sport!

but improper uses conveys lack of education...

Lack of education conveys lack of expertise or understanding

ergo, improper use of language adds (or takes away) from the message...

I mean, how many times have you heard older folks (probably baby boomers...or those who are around 50 and up for alex) complain about the odd verbiage of the internet (TTYL, L8r, IMO, etc)...don't you think that damages some of the message?

I use emoticons, particularly ":-P", but I limit myself to those. I always talk using English, even to my friends on Instant Messaging software. When people ask me why, I say, because I can! Considering a lot of conversations I have with people take about a minute for a reply, given that they have other conversations to tend to too, I find there's ample time to type out a message in full. I don't know if I believe that some of the message is lost. I just think it conveys negativity, sometimes. It shows laziness, I think. I find a lot of people know what they're doing, but they're too lazy to type a message out in full. Also, they're too lazy to look it up! I rarely go an evening without checking words in a dictionary, even Wiktionary from time to time. The English language is a beautiful thing, its complexities and eccentricities are amazing. It really disappoints me to see it butchered so badly. (There's another one, a friend nearly always writes "dissapoints", I've had to correct him basically every night for the last 3 years now).

When you're in West Hollywood and the crackhead tranny from Cambodia makes a sucking motion with it's mouth and hands and holds up five fingers, you get the drift.

"Good afternoon, fine sir. Would you mind if I delightfully felate you as I froddage my two sets of gentalia with my opposite phalanges for a mere compensation of five U.S. Dollars hitherto that I might dutifully purchase and consume a viable quantity of low grade, street manufactured base cocaine?" is not neccesary.

Just saying.

I've just used an Americanism! "Butchered"; that's not a verb! I mean "misused".

But that's exactly my point. The poor language he uses shows the type of person he is. You don't get too many intelligent people who can't string a sentence together. Speaking well is a good way to make people think you are cleverer than you actually are, believe me, I'm an exponent of it!

that's not right... I find a degree of hilarity in it, but it isn't right...

Re: the other thread about politeness over the Internet. :-P

see everyone has a voice

wasn't that an episode of judge judy?

I don't know if 46> 25 or vice versa - tough to tell given the circumstances - but TWO 25's > one 46 EVERY TIME. But as a male and general observer here, there's only ONE "job" a woman needs to do well to satisfy a man. No car neccessary.

I may be a grammar pedant, but a comma after the "dating" in that sentence would make such a difference, and change the meaning completely...

Can I get a loan?

Is that to repay the AF? :-P

Ain't nothin' worth payin' for, Alex.

on that note...If anyone's got some questions, I'll try and answer them... I don't know all that much, but I can fill in the blanks for the inquisitive mind...doesn't really bother me...

TRY TO! :-P

hahaha, i didn't even realise my fault!