Players who didn't reach their full potential

[Furball]

Have done this one soooooooo many times before - I prefer ineducated and thus regardless of the whims of the Oxford Dictionary I shall use it.

Yeah, language doesn't work like that.

 

[zaremba]

Have done this one soooooooo many times before - I prefer ineducated and thus regardless of the whims of the Oxford Dictionary I shall use it.

If you're tired of people picking you up for using your invented word, why not try using a real word instead?

 

[Richard]

No doubt Herschelle Gibbs didn't live up to his full potential.

Whipped out of the class room as a 16 year-old to make your FC debut for Western Province. The guy is pure sporting talent. Played representative rugby at age group levels and would have been fly-half for the Springboks. Also represented WP at junior levels in Football and athletics.

But back to his cricket. If he had used his brain more he could have had a test average of 50. His average peaked at around 46 but then he started to lose his drive and personal issues affected him and his test average dropped to 42 which isn't good enough for a man of his talents even though we do play on sporty pitches in SA.

Don't believe Gibbs was equipped to do anything of the sort myself, his technique was always lacking and he was always vulnerable to the best seam bowlers. Nothing but nothing was ever going to change his laissez-faire attitude to... well, everything really. It's part of who he is.

In an era of stronger bowling attacks I believe Gibbs would've strugged to hold down a Test place as an opener, though he possibly might have had a chance in the middle-order.

 

[Richard]

Yeah, language doesn't work like that.

There's no arbitary barriers, y'know. There are no laws governing language.

Seriously, how anyone can think uneducated sounds better than ineducated I'll never know.

 

[Richard]

If you're tired of people picking you up for using your invented word, why not try using a real word instead?

"Invented word"?! It's a change of 1 letter for crying out loud!

 

[Furball]

"Invented word"?! It's a change of 1 letter for crying out loud!

Wery wall tgen, I'lk totaley mesc aroond wifh hou wirds arr speld bi chinging ane lettur.

 

[Furball]

There's no arbitary barriers, y'know. There are no laws governing language.

Seriously, how anyone can think uneducated sounds better than ineducated I'll never know.

Yes there are. You can't just make up words because you think it sounds better.

Ironic too that the word you're changing is "uneducated."

 

[Richard]

Wery wall tgen, I'lk totaley mesc aroond wifh hou wirds arr speld bi chinging ane lettur.

Except most of those are drastic changes; "u" to "i" virtually cannot be.

 

[Richard]

Yes there are. You can't just make up words because you think it sounds better.

It's not "making-up words", it's using a different spelling of 1 whole letter, because it sounds considerably better.

 

[Jarquis]

It's not "making-up words", it's using a different spelling of 1 whole letter, because it sounds considerably better.

In your opinion.

 

[Furball]

Except most of those are drastic changes; "u" to "i" virtually cannot be.

Yeah, but I've only changed one letter in each word because I think it sounds better the way I've written it.

Ergo, the sentence is written in valid English. Who cares about how the Oxford English Dictionary defines the words?

 

[Richard]

Yeah, but I've only changed one letter in each word because I think it sounds better the way I've written it.

Ergo, the sentence is written in valid English. Who cares about how the Oxford English Dictionary defines the words?

You've completely changed vast numbers of words. What's the point? Yes, to try to compare with something that it's not remotely comparable with.

This is utterly silly. I am well aware of the Oxford Dictionary spelling, so from now on please don't quote it to me. I'm also rather bored of this discussion - I've had it 3-4 times before now.

 

[zaremba]

Except most of those are drastic changes; "u" to "i" virtually cannot be.

Unless you're talking about an IOU in which case the meaning is diametrically opposite

 

[zaremba]

This is utterly silly. I am well aware of the Oxford Dictionary spelling, so from now on please don't quote it to me. I'm also rather bored of this discussion - I've had it 3-4 times before now.

I truly cannot believe that you're suggesting that anyone else is being utterly silly here Richard.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

On the subject of invented words, and that of the thread, I don't think Shakespeare reached his full potential.

 

[Richard]

I truly cannot believe that you're suggesting that anyone else is being utterly silly here Richard.

I'm not. The whole discussion is silly. I don't need to be told "the Dictionary says otherwise", because I know that full well.

 

[Richard]

On the subject of invented words, and that of the thread, I don't think Shakespeare reached his full potential.

Certainly reached Christopher Marlowe's full potential though.

 

[Jarquis]

I'm not. The whole discussion is silly. I don't need to be told "the Dictionary says otherwise", because I know that full well.

Which is all the more baffling.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Certainly reached Christopher Marlowe's full potential though.

Minus the bloody death.

 

[Richard]

Which is all the more baffling.

Nah, not at all. If anyone thought I was ignorant of the Dictionary spelling, uneducated, then... well, they underestimated me, TBH, but that happens with considerable regularity.