Lol, imagine if “sports” was part of the origin story of news as a concept.
Also weather wasn’t part of news (as in published news) at first, unless they were reporting what it was currently doing right now, because it predated forecasting by about 300 years.
Oh now, we’ve been predicting the weather far longer than you imagine. We just haven’t been very good at it until fairly recently.
I take issue with sports being in headline news practically every day, or multiple days per week at least.
I have nothing against people enjoying sports, but it’s a hobby like any other, which I think is unreasonably thrust upon everyone else.
Where is the eSports news, or competitive dancing, woodworking news, or as I’m sure we can all agree on Lemmy, what about my old electronic gadget of the week news?
When I had The Guardian app, it was quite annoying that sports was lumped in with the push notifications for actual news.
I’m just saying sports news ought to be opt-in like any other hobby.
In Australia they’ve started doing horoscopes as part of the evening news. I’m not joking.
I agree. I can’t stand that every restaurant or bar has to have a TV or 20 that are all tuned to talking heads blowing hot air over what sports guy #876,914 did last night, or what sports guy #1,456,888 will do tomorrow night.
Even when it’s live sports, the broadcast is still more commercials than game, every square inch of the playing area is plastered with ads, plus the ads that are on the overlay, plus this instant replay is brought to you by A1 Hemorrhoid cream, from the Mega-Car Savings Plus Center, at beautiful Jack the Ambulance Chaser Stadium: “When you drive drunk, call Jack to blame on the innocent™!”
Oh but haven’t you heard? It’s vital to your career and social life that you pick a sportsball team. Else what ever will you answer when someone asks 😯???
How many innings are in a football game?
“Did you see that ludicrous display last night?”
what were they thinking???
I’m gonna sound like an asshole, but that stuff isn’t in there because the people reading newspapers don’t care about those things
I should specify, it’s in the context of tv news and other headline notifications in news apps, or front page.
I don’t read print newspapers, and have nothing against sports being covered in any news org, as long as it’s not put front and centre where you can’t escape it haha
Byzantine politics did have political parties and professional sports teams as literally the same thing, so it’s not completely insane as a concept.
No actually means “noteworthy observation” so it’s nice to get that validation.
Of course we all know that “news” stands for Never EVER Work Safe.
Isnt that Amazon warehouse motto?
Yes, but they got it from earlier companies, like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
The movie dramatisation of the triangle factory showed the awful conditions. Trying to make everyone clock out while the building was burning down around them. Madness.
This is why we dont have cool things any more… we make up our own knowledge just because it seems to fit
That’s what I thought when I was a kid but I was told I was wrong!
Acronyms didn’t become popular until fairly recently, so if the word is at least a century old, odds are that it isn’t an acronym.
This is why we don’t have nice things… we rather think that an incorrect statement from a random unknown person on the internet comes from someone lazy or nefarious, that from someone just making a joke.
I think it is funny to think of ‘NEWS’ as a abbreviation, why else would so many news media print it in capitals.
The way the internet works, people have no chance to know if you’re kidding or being serious. It takes one misunderstanding, to turn a distribution of a joke into distribution of misinformation
Sure. However there is a difference between “NEWS is a acroym for something” and much more hurtful and/or political/commercial motivated spread of misinformation.
Any misinformation is imo a problem, no matter if it is intentional, unintentional, hurtful or innocent
Its the practise of misinformation that i find dangerous, no matter what its about. I understand that misinformation can be funny though, but it must clearly show that it is a joke
But when I take a brake, doesn’t that mean I’m stopping work, hitting the brakes?
When I diffuse a situation, doesn’t that mean I’m thinning out the tension or whatever?
People make up whatever reason they need to avoid going to a dictionary to understand what they’re writing.
(It’s break and defuse, in case anyone was wondering. The first doesn’t need explanation, but defuse is because you want to cut the fuse off from the thing that’s going to blow up, the thing being the situation)
People make mistakes. Thems the brakes.
People are fucking illiterate, that’s what they are.
Literally is literally not literally except when it literally is literally.
How many people are like this? I hope it’s way less than a percent but experience tells me it’s a lot more. 😭
Plural for “new” was my presumption as well. That means a news article can actually be called a “new”.
It takes less time to Google that or ask a device, than to post that disinfo
Disinfo gets engagement though.
I’m surprised. Merriam-Webster is usually the Urban Dictionary of print dictionaries. I’d have more expected them to change their definition because “muh common usage.”
Hacks. OED or death.
etymology has nothing to do with common usage.
also common usage is what defines words; that has nothing to do with MW. that’s how language works. i can’t believe there are still prescriptionists in this century.
I love that there are strong opinions like this out there for dictionaries.
You’ve convinced me. I’m ride or die for OED now too.
the gold standard lexicon
Anyone have the definition of OED?
It’s the Oxford English Dictionary
I never really thought about choosing a side, but I am a staunch supporter of the Oxford comma. I guess now I know which side I’m on. Let’s fucking go
There’s dozens of us!
Oh, extra points for the Oxford comma, too. That automatically grants you Pope status.
Hopefully you’re an “Oxford comma, ride or die”, too.
Oxford comma, ride, or die
I do like that vampire weekend song.
Of course! I’d have thought that went without saying. I’m not a barbarian.
I’ll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I
recognize Missourigive up my Oxford comma.Oooo! Oooo!
I once worked with a guy from Missouri who said, “you know that little stub that sticks down into Arkansas? If we cut that off and gave it to Arkansas, it’d raise the average IQ of both states by 10 points.”
Always thought it was funny, but never knew if he was joking.
I once read an article praising the 1913 edition of the Webster’s dictionary and I have been using it ever since (in the form of GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English). That with etymonline makes the reading experience quite pleasant.
Webster’s still had morals in 1913. I wouldn’t shun a 1913 edition.
Well, you and I were already basically besties, weren’t we @The_Picard_Maneuver?
They should’ve checked this from the authority himself: Gary Busey.
This is Webster, named after the guy who butchered English for fun and fame? It’s like dunning-kruger became a linguistic architect.
Wasn’t he trying to simplify it? He’s the reason for most of our Americanized spellings, I’m pretty sure.
N.O. (Negative Order)
Not Optional.
johN Oliver
Idk if all the people in this comment section are joking, it means things that are new. New information about the world.
NORTH EAST WEST SOUTH
At least that’s what they taught us in journalism school
That doesn’t even make sense, who would refer to cardinal directions in that order?
The Catholic Church says hi.:-P
I think they do north south east west.
Isn’t it forehead chest, shoulder shoulder? So NSEW?
ah yes, the forehead, that points north.
I was thinking that chest counted as middle so thus didn’t count here? But yeah then South kinda didn’t fit in at all… this seems to be not the most well-thought-out comment I’ve made:-P.
The Catholic Church says hi ;-P
Oh. Then it makes sense that South is the final objective.
Not to be confused with the final solution, which was more Protestant.
Fun fact they were going to name compasses NEWS but the name was already taken
That’s news to me!
Actually it’s Never Eat While Shitting
Oops. Should I not have done that? I mean if anyone had told me that sort of thing is frowned upon I never would’ve…
They’re joking. You should actually always eat while shitting and shit while eating. No exceptions.
Should that mean that the 'human centipede ’ was just a demonstration of maximal efficiency?
That’s what the nice shelf is for on the toilet
Where else are you supposed to put your comic book and chocolate milk?
Beats me
My housemate at university used to eat a bowl of cereal while on the toilet in the morning. We referred to it as “the circle of life”.
I’d be mad as fuck lmao. You wanna talk about someone pissing in your cheerios, I hope you eat fast.
Never eat skunks weiners, actually.
NESW
Not Everyone Wins Sayings
Have it your way. Never Eat Weiners of Skunks
I always assumed it was news as plural. Here’s a list of new’s. This is new, that is new.
It is, and I hate it
I’m pretty sure this is the actual etymology of news.
People asking each other “what new things?” becomes “what news”, as well as usage like “that information is new to me” becoming “that is news to me”
Might as well call it Olds then, these days, considering how repetitious it all is.
It’s not only okay not to pluralize with an apostrophe, ever, but as a bonus it makes what you wrote into English.