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I have really had it with "nil"

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by casty33, Jun 25, 2006.

  1. Oz

    Oz Well-Known Member

    In that case, "nil" wouldn't fly for me. On TV, it's just fine. I agree, not in print.
     
  2. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    I would never use nil in print. Winning 1-nil just looks wrong. But it's perfectly fine to say it on TV.

    I know some die-hard soccer fans and they get annoyed if they hear an American broadcaster say "One to nothing" instead of "One, nil." Saying "One, nil" doesn't prove you know anything about soccer to them, but saying "One to nothing" proves you don't.

    Tie and draw I think are interchangeable. I guess I usually say "match" when referring to international soccer, but as I think about it, I'm pretty sure I usually write "game" when referring to high school soccer. I'm not at all consistent on that front.
     
  3. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    Sounds like you know some annoying elitists.
     
  4. bigpern23

    bigpern23 Well-Known Member

    Not really. If you were listening to a british broadcast of the World Baseball Classic (just as an example ... I know no one watched it, much less in Britain) and the announcer breathlessly shouted in his best Cockney accent, "And David Ortiz belts a four-run homer!" wouldn't you assume he knows nothing about baseball?
     
  5. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Speaking of nil ... wait till Johnny Pimples is the first 7th-grader to sign an NIL deal.

     
  6. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    I realize MLS announcers are trying to be purists, but all of the talk of "pace," "pitch" and "kits," and other soccer jargon barrowed from Europe is baffling to me.
     
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  7. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Ohio high schools just rejected it.
     
  8. Liut

    Liut Well-Known Member

    Do soccer teams that lose "fall" or "fell" like other sports teams?
     
  9. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    I hate it when baseball announcers use made-up bullshit like "innings."
     
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  10. SFIND

    SFIND Well-Known Member

  11. spikechiquet

    spikechiquet Well-Known Member

    While we are at it ... can we talk about how "time and space" are the same friggin' thing?! If you have time to shoot, you have the space to do it. If you have the space, you have time to shoot it.
     
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  12. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    “I’ve really had it with nil”

    Was this thread started by Saban?
     
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