Why is it you 'play' every other sport apart from bowling. You 'go bowling', you 'bowl' but you don't 'play bowling'.
...I'm going Ten Pin Bowling. Well, I'm not, I'm just making a point.
Stupid fucken english
Anyway, nighty night nights.
Monday, 12 January 2009
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I would give up one of my children to just spend a day inside of that weird head of yours.. lmao Night night!
ReplyDeleteThe reason is fairly straightforward (unusually for the English language). If the name of the sport is a noun, like football or cricket, you play it, because a verb is needed to show whether you’re doing it, watching it, or whatever else you might be doing to it.
ReplyDeleteIf it’s the present participle of a verb, like bowling, or skiing, or surfing, then you don’t need to prefix it with the present participle of the verb to play – ‘playing’ – because it already is one. Hence ‘playing football’, but not ‘playing surfing’, which would be a redundancy.
I hope that has set your mind at rest.
Damn it! Simon stole my comment!
ReplyDeleteAnd here I was feeling smart. Bah humbug.
from nasty royals, hitlers JS account to bowling. only the big topics here in Strange land.
ReplyDeleteI've got them covered U. lol
ReplyDeleteSD ~ No, you don't. lol.
Simon ~ Always figured you for a genius.
MAndo ~ [ ] THAT, close.
Tenpin or lawn bowls?
ReplyDeleteI can't play 10 pin bowling for shite.
ReplyDeleteBetter than the following dude, I'm sure.
ReplyDeletehttp://au.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pr4B7CSRgc
Don't listen to the grammar brainiacs. There's no present participle verb redundancies. Its just that English is overly complicated. Learn Esperanto instead.
ReplyDeleteOne doesn't play gymnastics either. It's rather curious, this language of ours.
ReplyDeleteI do!lol
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