![“[A]s far as I know, no sport has a more expansive vocabulary than football. And no sport has taken so many common words, stripped them of their original meanings, reinscribed them and fed them back into the English language as entirely different entities.“
Read more from Ariel Lewiton on the poetics of football here.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/5cbf5d0fcb11fe595efae8c8c28b54a4/tumblr_mhjwvoxGZS1qced37o1_500.jpg)
“[A]s far as I know, no sport has a more expansive vocabulary than football. And no sport has taken so many common words, stripped them of their original meanings, reinscribed them and fed them back into the English language as entirely different entities.“
Read more from Ariel Lewiton on the poetics of football here.
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This is just lovely.
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PS: puisque tu l’aime, j’apprendrai à l’aimer ausi.
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Really cool article about language.
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