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Discussion Groups / English Usage / February 2010It's not over until the fat lady....
I've just watched a snowboard race in the Winter Olympics (recorded from last night). Two of the four competitors had fallen and were far behind. It had become a duel between the leading two. The BBC commentator excitedly described the situation: It isn't over yet. The fat lady hasn't died singing on this race...  SignaturePeter Duncanson, UK (in alt.usage.english) > I've just watched a snowboard race in the Winter Olympics (recorded from > last night). Two of the four competitors had fallen and were far behind. > It had become a duel between the leading two. The BBC commentator > excitedly described the situation: > > It isn't over yet. The fat lady hasn't died singing on this race... Terrible! It should be "in this race", of course. Someone should advise the fellow to spend some time lurking in AUE. SignatureLes (BrE) > I've just watched a snowboard race in the Winter Olympics (recorded > from last night). Two of the four competitors had fallen and were far > behind. It had become a duel between the leading two. The BBC > commentator excitedly described the situation: > > It isn't over yet. The fat lady hasn't died singing on this race... I recommend the closed captions, too: a rich source of gibberish, by turns entertaining and frustratingly impenetrable. SignatureMike. > > I've just watched a snowboard race in the Winter Olympics (recorded > > from last night). Two of the four competitors had fallen and were far > > behind. It had become a duel between the leading two. The BBC > > commentator excitedly described the situation: > > > > It isn't over yet. The fat lady hasn't died singing on this race... > I recommend the closed captions, too: a rich source of gibberish, by > turns entertaining and frustratingly impenetrable. In the good old days of sports on radio . . . commentators who could keep up with the game and excite their listeners without drying up or talking gibberish were recognized as valuable and honoured for their skill. Famous British commentators included Raymond Glendenning (racing) and John Arlott (cricket) and Foster Hewitt could do this for ice hockey. I do not doubt there were football and baseball commentators with this skill -- probably killed off by the live TV camera. SignatureDon Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) >> I've just watched a snowboard race in the Winter Olympics (recorded >> from last night). Two of the four competitors had fallen and were far [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I recommend the closed captions, too: a rich source of gibberish, by > turns entertaining and frustratingly impenetrable. CC on the Canadian version of Coronation Street has someone called Clothbert. >>> I've just watched a snowboard race in the Winter Olympics (recorded >>> from last night). Two of the four competitors had fallen and were far [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > CC on the Canadian version of Coronation Street has someone called > Clothbert. I thought that one British detective series must have had the closed captioning done in the US, since it garbled the names of several major UK cities and common British phrases. I've been told since that sort of work is sometimes done with speech recognition software which, if true, might explain a lot since I believe it has to be trained to respond correctly to an individual's voice, which wouldn't work well with a movie. SignatureCheryl BrE filted: >I've just watched a snowboard race in the Winter Olympics (recorded from >last night). Two of the four competitors had fallen and were far behind. >It had become a duel between the leading two. The BBC commentator >excitedly described the situation: > > It isn't over yet. The fat lady hasn't died singing on this race... I wonder if he ever saw my old .sig line: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/msg/53647a082721b6d3 ....r SignatureA pessimist sees the glass as half empty. An optometrist asks whether you see the glass more full like this?...or like this? > I've just watched a snowboard race in the Winter Olympics (recorded > from last night). Two of the four competitors had fallen and were [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > It isn't over yet. The fat lady hasn't died singing on this > race... Sung her swan song? Signature--- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: believe that everything is for you until you discover that :|| ||: you are for it :|| |
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