| Anyone watching the Nfl? 21:55 - Jan 30 with 1875 views | bluelagos |
Wondering why so many stands in stadia in America dont have roofs? [Post edited 30 Jan 2022 22:01]
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:02 - Jan 30 with 1241 views | Keno |
Blame the money men, when it comes to keeping building costs down they were ruthless [Post edited 30 Jan 2022 22:04]
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:03 - Jan 30 with 1235 views | footers |
*rooves |  |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:04 - Jan 30 with 1237 views | Guthrum |
In bits of the US, the weather is quite dry. Also, those stadiums are huge. Some of the college grounds hold 100k. |  |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:06 - Jan 30 with 1225 views | bluelagos |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:02 - Jan 30 by Keno |
Blame the money men, when it comes to keeping building costs down they were ruthless [Post edited 30 Jan 2022 22:04]
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I thought the customer was king in America? Paying a lot of money to sit in the p*ssing rain is hardly customer friendly... | |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:07 - Jan 30 with 1214 views | bluelagos |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:03 - Jan 30 by footers |
*rooves |
American pural is roofs :-) [Post edited 30 Jan 2022 22:11]
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:10 - Jan 30 with 1201 views | footers |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:07 - Jan 30 by bluelagos |
American pural is roofs :-) [Post edited 30 Jan 2022 22:11]
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Americans think 'healthful' is a word. That is no defen(s)e, sir. | |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:10 - Jan 30 with 1198 views | bluelagos |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:04 - Jan 30 by Guthrum |
In bits of the US, the weather is quite dry. Also, those stadiums are huge. Some of the college grounds hold 100k. |
Like Las Vegas? Where the Raiders stadium has a roof!
(Prob need air con there tbf) | |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:12 - Jan 30 with 1185 views | bluelagos |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:10 - Jan 30 by footers |
Americans think 'healthful' is a word. That is no defen(s)e, sir. |
Is a bit of a conundrum. Do you know the plural of conundrum and why? | |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:13 - Jan 30 with 1193 views | BlueBadger |
I don't watch any 'sport' where the adverts in breaks are more fun than the 'sport' involved
See also: golf, F1 [Post edited 30 Jan 2022 22:28]
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:16 - Jan 30 with 1169 views | bluelagos |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:13 - Jan 30 by BlueBadger |
I don't watch any 'sport' where the adverts in breaks are more fun than the 'sport' involved
See also: golf, F1 [Post edited 30 Jan 2022 22:28]
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You class golf as a sport? | |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:16 - Jan 30 with 1169 views | footers |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:12 - Jan 30 by bluelagos |
Is a bit of a conundrum. Do you know the plural of conundrum and why? |
This is one of those arguments for the old dusty fellas who learnt Latin, innit?
footers out. | |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:18 - Jan 30 with 1167 views | BlueBadger |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:16 - Jan 30 by bluelagos |
You class golf as a sport? |
In all fairness, no.
Golf is basically a country walk with worse tailoring and more institutional racism rather than a sport. [Post edited 30 Jan 2022 22:28]
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:19 - Jan 30 with 1152 views | bluelagos |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:16 - Jan 30 by footers |
This is one of those arguments for the old dusty fellas who learnt Latin, innit?
footers out. |
Not quite. Plural is conundrums, reason being conundrum is an English not Latin word. It was a made up word made to sound Latin but is defo of English origin.
(According to an episode of QI) | |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:20 - Jan 30 with 1147 views | factual_blue |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:13 - Jan 30 by BlueBadger |
I don't watch any 'sport' where the adverts in breaks are more fun than the 'sport' involved
See also: golf, F1 [Post edited 30 Jan 2022 22:28]
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And 'cycling'. |  |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:20 - Jan 30 with 1144 views | Guthrum |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:10 - Jan 30 by bluelagos |
Like Las Vegas? Where the Raiders stadium has a roof!
(Prob need air con there tbf) |
Heh, yes.
When I went to the States we were looking to go to a college game, but it would have been a September evening in Idaho, thus very chilly and tickets were too pricey. | |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:24 - Jan 30 with 1116 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:19 - Jan 30 by bluelagos |
Not quite. Plural is conundrums, reason being conundrum is an English not Latin word. It was a made up word made to sound Latin but is defo of English origin.
(According to an episode of QI) |
Well that's a conundrum solved. |  |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:26 - Jan 30 with 1108 views | Guthrum |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:19 - Jan 30 by bluelagos |
Not quite. Plural is conundrums, reason being conundrum is an English not Latin word. It was a made up word made to sound Latin but is defo of English origin.
(According to an episode of QI) |
Arguably, even words of Latin/Greek/other origin which have been borrowed by English should follow the endings conventions of the latter, as we do not customarily use their grammar (having mostly squashed our declining or conjugating and abolishing genders). | |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:30 - Jan 30 with 1074 views | bluelagos |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:26 - Jan 30 by Guthrum |
Arguably, even words of Latin/Greek/other origin which have been borrowed by English should follow the endings conventions of the latter, as we do not customarily use their grammar (having mostly squashed our declining or conjugating and abolishing genders). |
So you are a fan of Indexes? [Post edited 30 Jan 2022 22:31]
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:31 - Jan 30 with 1055 views | Guthrum |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:30 - Jan 30 by bluelagos |
So you are a fan of Indexes? [Post edited 30 Jan 2022 22:31]
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Indexes, yes. An x at the end of a word is equivalent to an s. | |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:33 - Jan 30 with 1042 views | footers |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:30 - Jan 30 by bluelagos |
So you are a fan of Indexes? [Post edited 30 Jan 2022 22:31]
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Indices, shirley. | |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:34 - Jan 30 with 1041 views | footers |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:16 - Jan 30 by footers |
This is one of those arguments for the old dusty fellas who learnt Latin, innit?
footers out. |
I see our resident Stephen Yaxley-Lennon fan is now interested in Latin grammar too. Fascinating. | |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:35 - Jan 30 with 1029 views | Illinoisblue |
It’s long bothered me. A stadium without a roof is just a bowl. |  |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:56 - Jan 30 with 951 views | Illinoisblue |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:10 - Jan 30 by footers |
Americans think 'healthful' is a word. That is no defen(s)e, sir. |
Never heard that word but in sports writing have often seen “winningest” as in most winningest coach of all time.
I refuse to accept it’s a real word. | |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 23:21 - Jan 30 with 906 views | BlueBadger |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:31 - Jan 30 by Guthrum |
Indexes, yes. An x at the end of a word is equivalent to an s. |
This is why I love TWTD. A thread about boring niche sports has turned into a rather esoteric discussion about about uses of language and etymology. | |
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| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 00:07 - Jan 31 with 852 views | factual_blue |
| Anyone watching the Nfl? on 22:12 - Jan 30 by bluelagos |
Is a bit of a conundrum. Do you know the plural of conundrum and why? |
All these '-ums' that are English words (i.e. aren't italicised in print to denote they are a word merely borrowed from a foreign language) end with 's' in the plural. Conundrums. Stadiums. Vomitoriums. Auditoriums. Give them the Latin plural is being a bit silly; an attempt to look smart that actually achieves the opposite.
Otherwise, as somebody once observed, we'd describe mathematicians as people who sit on their ba doing sa.
Obviously, just my opinion. | |
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