I thought Trump had a limited vocabulary. He has competition.

[3catwoman3]

Last night, I was watching the Paralympics snowboarding competition. One of the 2 commentators was past Olympian Amy Purdy. She may be a good snowboarder, but her vocabulary needs some work. A lot of work.

The whole show, the ONLY adjective she used was "incredible" - over, and over, and over. Sometimes twice in the same sentence. It was a combination of irritating, laughable, and pathetic.

At the very end of the broadcast, she did describe one race as "tight," and also used "fantastic."

I'd like to send her a list of alternatives.

[EYESORE 9001]

1. Adjectives should be shot on sight

They are responsible for more ambiguity than any other part of speech.

[leftieNanner]

2. Maybe

Pop a Roget's Thesaurus in the mail?

I've always thought that sports announcers would have nothing to say if you removed the word "situation" from the English language.

[underpants]

3. Cue Pepper Brooks

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[First Speaker]

4. It could be worse--she might have said "awesome"

[Aristus]

5. It's like the rule that an NFL color commentary guy has to have a Southern accent.

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

[rownesheck]

6. I hate hearing a commentator

use "differential" as in "point differential". Shouldn't it be "difference"? Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know.

[3catwoman3]

7. "Goal differential" is regularly used in English soccer/football leagues when looking at...

...where teams rank within their league, and is abbreviated GD in the charts. It refers to the total number of goals scored by a team compared with the total number of goals scored against them for the whole season. I don't hear it used when discussing the score in individual games.

I can't speak to any other sports.

A word I have come to detest is impactful. It sounds clumsy and pretentious. There is nothing wrong with influential, which I think sounds more sophisticated.