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• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do you have an example or is this from an 80s movie? I can’t think of a single sports term someone would use to insult you or say something is cute.

  Not sure how common it is outside of media for people to be throwing footballs around in the hallway, either…

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  • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cover all your bases

    From left field

    Thow you a curveball

    Roll with the punches

    Throw in the towell

    Move the goalposts

    Par for the course

    There are plenty more but its basically so ubiquitous no one even notices all their cringy sports terms in every day life.

    (/s on the cringy, just a play on op)

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Those are idioms. The anime kids were weirdly incorporating Japanese words into their communication with English speakers and doing kamehamehas in the hallway.

      Here’s something more analogous: A friend spent the summer before senior year in France and when she came back, you could not get through a conversation without her dropping a French word or relating something to “how they do things in France”. And yes, we made fun of her until she stopped.

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      • RamenJunkie@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thats kind of how language works though. Words get borrowed and absorbed from other languages all the time.

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