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Am I the only one who finds the term 'sportspeople' weird and awkward? Why not call them athletes?
by insickness 3y ago
Am I the only one who finds the term 'sportspeople' weird and awkward? Why not call them athletes?
- shermantanktop 3y agoAthleople?
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- Swizec 3y agoThere’s a lot of sportspeople who aren’t athletes. I average close to 20 hours of sportsing per week, but I am no athlete. An athlete is someone who competes for realzies, maybe even money.
- gradus_ad 3y agoSeems like an unnecessary complication. We already have a way of distinguishing that: athlete vs paid or professional athlete.
- kazinator 3y agoYou could pay me all you want; I'd still be a sportsman and not an athlete.
- norir 3y agoIf you spend 20 hours per week playing music, you're a musician.
- kazinator 3y agoYes, and, note, not an athlete.
- harryVic 3y agoNot all of them are athletic.
- crazygringo 3y agoBut aren't they? Pretty much every sportsperson who wears a helmet is an athlete, no? It's not the golfers or bowlers who are wearing helmets. It's the American football and ice hockey players. Even F1 drivers need to be in top athletic condition. As a general rule not all sportspeople are athletes, but for this article "athlete" does feel like the more natural word.
- NegativeLatency 3y agoI bike for transportation sometimes but I wouldn’t consider myself a cycling athlete.
- kube-system 3y agoYou wouldn't be a sportsperson then either :)
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- runarberg 3y agoIn Icelandic athletes translates to íþróttafólk which literally means sportspeople. So to me this sounds like an Icelander that doesn’t know good English. It’s probably a perfectly cromulent word though.
- frutiger 3y ago> So to me this sounds like an Icelander that doesn’t know good English. Complete aside, but since we are participating in linguistic tomfoolery, this feels appropriate: The expression should be “doesn’t have good English”, or perhaps, “doesn’t know English well”.
- helloworld 3y ago[Cromulent] was introduced in "Lisa the Iconoclast," an episode of the Fox animated television series The Simpsons that first aired on February 18, 1996. Coinage of the word has been attributed to the television writer David X. Cohen by Bill Oakley, one of the series' producers, in a commentary to the DVD release of the series. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cromulent https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cromulent
- niceice 3y agoYou're right, it's awkward and takes you out of the story. They could have just said athletes.
- kube-system 3y agoIn comparison to "sportsperson", "athlete" has slightly more of a connotation of proficiency or seriousness. "sportsperson" more plainly means anyone engaging in sport.
- bl_valance 3y agoCan also include motorcyclists/cyclists, which aren't necessarily considered "athletes". Maybe "recreational use" might had been more apt. Really wondering if this can be combined and standardized through ECE 22.06/SNELL/MIPS. ECE is probably the best bet for testing something like this, SNELL is too strict in its testing experimentation.
- FpUser 3y agoWhy do people consume articles instead of reading?
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- m463 3y agoI think this might apply to people who do a variety of activities that might not fit into traditional genres, like motorcycling, horseback riding, ATVs, skiing, skateboarding, scooter/cycle commuting, military/police, etc