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Sloane Martin and Meghan Culmo

TAK said:
Would like Sloan to focus on the play by play details. Who subbed in. Who the foul was on and how many fouls the player has.
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Sometimes the play by play announcer will say who a foul was on and who is coming in for who when substitutions are made. Sometimes. For fouls the camera person/show director almost always (and quickly) put the camera on the person who got the foul. For substitutions it's usually up to the viewer to figure it out on their own and hopefully not miss too much action while doing so. For televised games like last night, as soon as I notice there was a substitution I'll rewind a bit or freeze it while doing the detective work. It would be much easier if the play by play just announced that information, which is really their job.

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schmendrick said:
Was pleasantly surprised by Martin in particular. Quite knowledgeable and appreciated her use, late in the fourth quarter, of the word ineluctable.
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I was an English major, am an avid reader, have done really hard crossword puzzles daily since chidhood, and excel at other word games, but I don't believe I've ever come across this word before! Hmm.... ineluctable? Even as a "word snob", I dislike when people use words that they can be sure that their audience won't understand, especially for a professional communicator!
 
SoCalCanine said:
I was an English major, am an avid reader, have done really hard crossword puzzles daily since chidhood, and excel at other word games, but I don't believe I've ever come across this word before! Hmm.... ineluctable? Even as a "word snob", I dislike when people use words that they can be sure that their audience won't understand, especially for a professional communicator!
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Yeah, I never have run across that word. I've made it this far without needing it so I think I'll let it fade back into obscurity.

Re know your audience. Absolutely true. I've done a fair amount of podium speaking and doing training sessions and did try to match vocabulary to audience, not always successfully I'm sure. I've also found that there are what I consider to be normal words that a surprising number of people aren't familiar with. If you dumb down too much there are some that feel you are patronizing.
 
SoCalCanine said:
I was an English major, am an avid reader, have done really hard crossword puzzles daily since chidhood, and excel at other word games, but I don't believe I've ever come across this word before! Hmm.... ineluctable? Even as a "word snob", I dislike when people use words that they can be sure that their audience won't understand, especially for a professional communicator!
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It is an astonishingly beautiful and apt word. Comes from the Latin verb for "struggle out of," which, with the in-, comes to mean "unable to be struggled out of." Which is precisely where Florida State found itself late in the fourth quarter.
 
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Yeah, I never have run across that word. I've made it this far without needing it so I think I'll let it fade back into obscurity.

Re know your audience. Absolutely true. I've done a fair amount of podium speaking and doing training sessions and did try to match vocabulary to audience, not always successfully I'm sure. I've also found that there are what I consider to be normal words that a surprising number of people aren't familiar with. If you dumb down too much there are some that feel you are patronizing.
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I taught elementary science, grades 3,4,5 for a while. I didn't believe in spending huge amounts of time on vocabulary when they could be actually doing something, so I spoke the vocabulary and I felt that hearing and using the words in context would work. I was more about hands-on. Latin names in classification. We got more done.
Yes, people, if they're engaged will adapt to the level of discourse, I believe. Gotta have context clues though. I have no idea what that word she used means.
 
In an interview, Howard Cosell once told Ali he was being "truculent." Ali replied "If that's good, then I'm that."

I first encountered that word reading Ivanhoe. If you like obsolete/obscure words, that's the book to read.
 
Bigboote said:
Glad to see Meg. Sloane Martin has called a lot of basketball, she doesn’t run her mouth as much as a lot of announcers, for which I’m glad.
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While there were a few awkward moments of silence, it was great to have knowledgeable announcers who didn't talk too much. Sometimes it's great to be able to watch the game without announcers who like to hear themselves speak rather than add value.
 
Bigboote said:
Glad to see Meg. Sloane Martin has called a lot of basketball, she doesn’t run her mouth as much as a lot of announcers, for which I’m glad.
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Meghan is great. Sloane Martin, non stop talking, about everything but the game.
 
TAK said:
Would like Sloan to focus on the play by play details. Who subbed in. Who the foul was on and how many fouls the player has.
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I am with you. Forget about the history, please just give us information about the game.
 
SoCalCanine said:
I was an English major, am an avid reader, have done really hard crossword puzzles daily since chidhood, and excel at other word games, but I don't believe I've ever come across this word before! Hmm.... ineluctable? Even as a "word snob", I dislike when people use words that they can be sure that their audience won't understand, especially for a professional communicator!
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In his great novel Ulysses, James Joyce talks about the "ineluctable modality of the visible." According to AI, that refers to the inescapable nature of perception through sight and how it shapes our reality.

Watching the UCONN women play FSU, you can see that their potential greatness is ineluctable.
 
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