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August 28, 2010
Learn Linguistics with Latrell Spreewell: The college textbook Relevant Linguistics contains some interesting examples: "Latrell hate-s all coaches." "Latrell like-s to choke coaches." "Latrell threaten-ed to kill PJ." "Latrell hasn't spoke-n to PJ in years."
posted by rcade to basketball at 04:34 PM - 2 comments
That's a nicely found nugget. I still want to know why Sprewell ended up choking Carlesimo while leaving Wimp Sanderson unscathed. I'd chase Sanderson around the gym just based on some of his gameday wardrobe decisions.
I hope at some point someone will carry this field of study further into the world of sports and do a study of all-beef testosteronial inflectional dynamics with a central emphasis on the broadcasts of Jon Gruden.
posted by beaverboard at 04:18 PM on August 28, 2010
Ironically, I've never been able to pronounce Sprewell's name correctly. I always end up saying "Lapel Squeeze-well". I don't know why.