side rant

[Sinobas]

The tweet on the side of this board has been irritating me.

"And then the Wiz can go out and try to make a deal with an Al Horford or a Ryan Anderson or a Nic Batum before making Beal's deal official."

Are there multiple Al Horfords availabile in free agency? They make signing an Al Horford sound like going to the grocery store to pick out an apple. You don't go out and sign an Al Horford. Al Horford is a person, and only one of him exists in the world. A parent wouldn't say "I'm going to go out and get a child from a daycare." Just any random child? No, you are going to pick up your child. Sports journalists should know how to talk like regular people, not in ways that make me want to punch them in the face.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

I wish that Twitter area was used as a live stream of tweets from maybe 5-10 good NBA/Trail Blazer people. The way it is now, most of it is out dated and its only stuff that RipCityTwo retweets.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Right now the only way a tweet displays there is if I manually retweet something, I'll ask someone from the Blazers for help on making all Blazer, Blazer player and maybe a few other people automatically display.

 

[MARIS61]

Until now I was blissfully ignorant of any tweets being displayed.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I... blissfully ignorant

We know, trust us we know.

 

[VanillaGorilla]

The tweet on the side of this board has been irritating me.

"And then the Wiz can go out and try to make a deal with an Al Horford or a Ryan Anderson or a Nic Batum before making Beal's deal official."

Are there multiple Al Horfords availabile in free agency? They make signing an Al Horford sound like going to the grocery store to pick out an apple. You don't go out and sign an Al Horford. Al Horford is a person, and only one of him exists in the world. A parent wouldn't say "I'm going to go out and get a child from a daycare." Just any random child? No, you are going to pick up your child. Sports journalists should know how to talk like regular people, not in ways that make me want to punch them in the face.

Thank you! People saying things like that is such a pet peeve of mine. It makes absolutely no sense when they are talking about specific players. It just makes the person saying it sound r word.

 

[BrianFromWA]

For all intensive purposes its the same thing. Your literally making me want to kill you by bringing this garbage up.

 

[Minstrel]

The use of the indefinite articles is meant to indicate a lack of specificity, actually, despite the actual names. If he removed them and wrote, "And then the Wiz can go out and try to make a deal with Al Horford or Ryan Anderson or Nic Batum before making Beal's deal official" it would change the meaning--it would indicate that he meant they could try to make a deal for one of those three players. But he doesn't mean just those three players. He's (imprecisely) lumping them all into a "good players" category to indicate what he really means: that the Wizards can go out and try to acquire a good, outside free agent before re-signing Beal. He uses names to give examples.

The "a" and "an" do have communicative value though, of course, it could be worded differently to also indicate the same basic meaning.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Thank you! People saying things like that is such a pet peeve of mine. It makes absolutely no sense when they are talking about specific players. It just makes the person saying it sound retarded.

Isn't this another example of "language evolving"? Obviously, the intended meaning is "a player on the level of Horford or Anderson or Batum", and (most) anyone who reads it understands that. If the usage of indefinite articles preceding the items in a list of defined items becomes semi-common usage, can't we simply adjust?

 

[PtldPlatypus]

For all intensive purposes its the same thing. Your literally making me want to kill you by bringing this garbage up.

My literally? Or VG's literally? Or Sinobas' literally? Whose literally are we talking about?!

 

[Minstrel]

look for all intensive purposes I could care less, you should of noticed how rediculous that was so irregardless its a mute point, per say

 

[BrianFromWA]

Sinoba's and VGs literally. Mute point, though.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

look for all intensive purposes I could care less, you should of noticed how rediculous that was so irregardless its a mute point, per say

Sinoba's and VGs literally. Mute point, though.

You're both making my eyes bleed.

 

[BrianFromWA]

Literally making you're eyes bleed?

 

[PtldPlatypus]

Literally making you're eyes bleed?

Defiantly.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I'll just have to borrow you's guys my 9th grade grammar textbook, that's the last time I paid attention to it.

 

[Sinobas]

For all intensive purposes its the same thing. Your literally making me want to kill you by bringing this garbage up.

This is a joke right?

 

[drexlersdad]

All you grammar nazis need to step down off your petal stool.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Right now the only way a tweet displays there is if I manually retweet something, I'll ask someone from the Blazers for help on making all Blazer, Blazer player and maybe a few other people automatically display.

That'd be cool!
Even their social hub is kinda out dated, but it's current on the Trail Blazers home page.
http://www.nba.com/blazers/carmax-social-hub/

 

[Mediocre Man]

Ya, right now I hate the twitter feed thing. Sly having to do it manually is not an option. Auto, if doable would be great