Saturday, April 6, 2013

Roberto's idiolect concerning sports

Today's post goes out to a guy who makes up funny words in the middle of a Syracuse basketball game even though he claims to have used them in high school.

idiolect \ID-ee-uh-lekt\, noun:
a person's individual speech pattern. Compare dialect (def. 1).

We'll call this particular guy Roberto, a guy who lives on my floor, and happens to be a sports fanatic.  Roberto has a few words that he likes to use in his own little sports idiolect that I'm going to share with you below (p.s. I have to completely make up the spelling):

-Steeze: just another word for "swag" but implies athletic ability.

-Clutch: player HAS the ball.

These are the main two words that he uses, although there are more that Roberto doesn't particularly favor.

In other news, Syracuse just lost to Michigan in the Final Four round, and although it was a helluva game, I'm terribly sad about it.  :(

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