Provide me with an example where context is not enough; I'd really like to see one. I cannot think of one — especially with the two words cited in the article.
You have fun with that, the Cubs, Pirates, and Cardinals are gonna go ahead and pummel your team in the dirt for the next decade.
which reminds Spanish speakers that “Inglés” means English, while “Ingles” means groin
So, today’s three HBP were retaliation for yesterday’s one HBP (pant leg), following Holliday being beaned. About which Maddon got all huffy...fuck him.
The language of the digital age is English! Embrace it! Let us be united and not divided!
Personally, I was hoping accent marks would just kinda fade away. This campaign makes me sad...
Cubs fans have been more insufferable than Red Sox fans for a long time already. Have you ever seen a fanbase in any sport so proud of supporting crappy teams and so completely ignorant about baseball? Cheering every time a Cubs hitter pops the ball up to the second baseman because they think it’s going to carry into…
If hitting Kolten is Wong then I don't want to be white.
He’s part of the reason I started hating the Rays. Considering he was crying about the Cards doing this, he should be an NFL coach.
NO! That is not how the Fifth Amendment works.
Sliding into second to break up a double play is legal. Throwing a ball at a batter because you felt some imagined slight is not.
“Clean Energy” if you don’t take into account what it takes to mine, refine and transport everything needed to make those batteries. And the fact that they are very expensive to recycle and process. But after all that? Yea they are saving the world.
This one?
...is how a moron participates on the internet.
Yeah. I have three little sisters, and yet Prim’s death had very little emotional impact for me. Not like the reaping scene from the first book. Just thinking about that, and the scene from the movie which JLaw did so beautifully, it makes me want to cry. Her actually dying? Not so much. Part of that is because Prim…
Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead!Hunger Games Trailer: Here’s one.Dead Collector: Nine pence.Prim Everdeen: I’m not dead.Dead Collector: What?Hunger Games Trailer: Nothing. There’s your nine pence.Prim Everdeen: I’m not dead!Dead Collector: ‘Ere, she says she’s not dead.Hunger Games Trailer: Yes she is.Prim Everdeen:…
I mean, it was pretty telegraphed in the books too, right?
Actually, watching the trailer, I can see how a non-reader can think that it’s Katniss’ sacrifice they’re talking about, and that everything she’s done has been for Prim. It doesn’t really hint at Prim’s death unless you’ve already read the book and know what’s going to happen.