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Post by grant on Oct 20, 2012 22:34:54 GMT
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Post by maveragejoe on Oct 20, 2012 22:38:38 GMT
Ha,this is what i auto associated it with when the name was mentioned. But is being a 'sportist'really a bad thing?  |
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Post by penguin on Oct 20, 2012 22:40:17 GMT
Oh no, what have we done?
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Post by wightvixen on Oct 21, 2012 7:52:38 GMT
Oops!
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Post by neilster on Oct 21, 2012 11:09:51 GMT
We are reinventing the word SPORTIST to mean being an all round good guy and super shibby. We shall have to write to them to get the definition changed.
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Post by Jelly on Oct 21, 2012 12:21:20 GMT
it looks like it's an americanism anyway - SPORTISTS FTW
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Post by Tribesman on Oct 21, 2012 17:53:56 GMT
Just rated the definition as 'incorrect'. It sounds like it was written by some 14 year old American high-school kid who was told to piss off in the canteen.
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Post by Tribesman on Oct 21, 2012 18:34:41 GMT
Being an -ist doesn't mean you discriminate on the basis of the first part of the word like 'racist'; it just means you follow an -ism, in this case racism. Other -ists like pacifists and Buddhists are thoroughly nice people.
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Post by lunarlucy on Oct 28, 2012 19:17:23 GMT
It would be wrong not to give Niall more karma for saying something nice about buddhists  'Suffix appended to words to create a masculine noun, usually denoting a follower or a profession' Yep! It has no negative connotation, it's a simple suffix. Yes, racists and rapists do something bad, and geologists do something largely boring, and sportists so something badass |
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Post by lunarlucy on Oct 28, 2012 19:18:03 GMT
Which I will do when it lets me again, I've just done one a mo ago |
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