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Floyd R. Turbo

(26,547 posts) Tue Mar 27, 2018, 04:52 PM Mar 2018

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Adjectives I never hear watching American sports:

Lovely

Brilliant

Delightful

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Adjectives I never hear watching American sports: (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 OP

soothing dameatball Mar 2018 #1

Indeed! 👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #2

macabre...? dameatball Mar 2018 #3

Yep! 👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #7

Fabulous! The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2018 #4

Another! 👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #8

Here's another: JDC Mar 2018 #5

Right you are! I actually was thinking about the difference between the language used by Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #9

How about in America period? BeyondGeography Mar 2018 #6

Too true! 👍🏻 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #10

I kid you not Ohiogal Mar 2018 #11

I believe it! Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #12

Oops! Ohiogal Mar 2018 #13

I knew what you meant! Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #14

I figured you did! Ohiogal Mar 2018 #15

Its my gift! 😏 Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #16

Tennis? MuseRider Mar 2018 #17

With Yank commentators? Floyd R. Turbo Mar 2018 #18

Yes but maybe MuseRider Mar 2018 #21

'Elegant' Cirque du So-What Mar 2018 #19

Several years ago, I posted a joking observation that NFL color commentary teams Aristus Mar 2018 #20

Just tonight when I peeked in on the NIT bball game I heard the announcer say: rurallib Mar 2018 #22

dameatball

(7,398 posts)

1. soothing

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 04:56 PM

Mar 2018

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,547 posts)

2. Indeed! 👍🏻

Reply to dameatball (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 04:58 PM

Mar 2018

dameatball

(7,398 posts)

3. macabre...?

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 05:02 PM

Mar 2018

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,547 posts)

7. Yep! 👍🏻

Reply to dameatball (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 05:11 PM

Mar 2018

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,719 posts)

4. Fabulous!

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 05:03 PM

Mar 2018

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,547 posts)

8. Another! 👍🏻

Reply to The Velveteen Ocelot (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 05:11 PM

Mar 2018

JDC

(10,128 posts)

5. Here's another:

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 05:07 PM

Mar 2018

You definitely don't hear "Delicious" - as in a delicious pass - a Premier League favorite.

Golf is the closest we're gonna get to lovely or delightful. Brilliant might be used, but in a different context and with no charm.

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,547 posts)

9. Right you are! I actually was thinking about the difference between the language used by

Reply to JDC (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 05:16 PM

Mar 2018

the Brit and Yank commentators while watching the Six Nations Grand Slam game on St. Paddy’s Day!

BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)

6. How about in America period?

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 05:09 PM

Mar 2018

Brilliant is the only of those three I occasionally hear, and half the time it’s sarcasm.

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,547 posts)

10. Too true! 👍🏻

Reply to BeyondGeography (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 05:17 PM

Mar 2018

Ohiogal

(32,002 posts)

11. I kid you not

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 05:28 PM

Mar 2018

Many years ago watching a baseball game with my dad, Curt Gowdy was announcing the play by play, and in referring to the count on the batter, which was 0 and 2, he said "He's got two balls on him."

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,547 posts)

12. I believe it!

Reply to Ohiogal (Reply #11)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 05:29 PM

Mar 2018

Ohiogal

(32,002 posts)

13. Oops!

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Reply #12)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 05:32 PM

Mar 2018

I meant to say the count was 2 and 0, not 0 and 2! My bad!

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,547 posts)

14. I knew what you meant!

Reply to Ohiogal (Reply #13)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 05:34 PM

Mar 2018

Ohiogal

(32,002 posts)

15. I figured you did!

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Reply #14)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 05:38 PM

Mar 2018

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,547 posts)

16. Its my gift! 😏

Reply to Ohiogal (Reply #15)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 05:39 PM

Mar 2018

MuseRider

(34,111 posts)

17. Tennis?

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 06:01 PM

Mar 2018

I hear those watching tennis sometimes.

Floyd R. Turbo

(26,547 posts)

18. With Yank commentators?

Reply to MuseRider (Reply #17)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 06:03 PM

Mar 2018

MuseRider

(34,111 posts)

21. Yes but maybe

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Reply #18)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 07:20 PM

Mar 2018

not if you are listening to Johnnie Mac.

Cirque du So-What

(25,940 posts)

19. 'Elegant'

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 06:36 PM

Mar 2018

Never heard that term used in sports commentary.

Aristus

(66,380 posts)

20. Several years ago, I posted a joking observation that NFL color commentary teams

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 06:53 PM

Mar 2018

never go on the air unless they have a Southerner on the panel.

So he can say things like:

"Jew see hee-im kitch 'at bawl?"

rurallib

(62,416 posts)

22. Just tonight when I peeked in on the NIT bball game I heard the announcer say:

Reply to Floyd R. Turbo (Original post)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 09:22 PM

Mar 2018

"You got to get it up to get it up to get it in"
Then he must have realized what he said, so he followed with "That's what my dad told me."

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