[kde-edu]: announcement

[Jos Poortvliet]

On 10/12/07, Richard Smedley <rs at m6-it.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:53 +0200, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > On 10/12/07, Shelagh Manton <shelagh.manton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >  Thanks to the work by Carlos Licea, Marble sports a new 2D
>
> > > > > sports?
> > > > "has", as in "newly featured", isn't that rather proper english?
>
> > > Yes "sports" is great in this context. Sports can be used for new
> > > clothes as in "He was sporting a natty new suit." One imagines someone
> > > strutting around with great pride in themselves. Excellent choice of
> > > words.
>
> > Look, if you're sarcastic, PLEASE add a line telling so - I don't have
> > time trying to figure out if this is proper use of english or not, and
> > this comment doesn't really help very well... It probably would be
> > funny if I had way too much time on my hand, but reality currently is
> > very very different for me.
>
> Dag Jos,
>
> I think there is no sarcasm here. In the UK (& America) sports
> has become quite common usage through ``journalese'' (the self-
> consciously fancy language of print and radio/TV journalist),
> and is quite normal to see not just in press releases, but in
> review articles, and general comment.
>
> It still carries the implications of natiness and pride to which
> Shelagh alludeed, but not strongly. In fact the only reason to
> avoid sports in favour of has (or even features) is that it
> may be viewed as cliche or hackneyed language - but that is
> very context dependent, and sports is fine here.

OK, thanks. Sorry for my response, I didn't mean any harm, just was
unsure and didn't like that feeling ;-)

> Regards,
>
>  - Richard
>
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