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At 9/12/09 06:11 PM, Haggard wrote:
At 9/12/09 08:02 AM, Auz wrote:
I think almost anyone here is better with English than with German. Mainly because everything around us is English. We hear English on tv, we read English on the internet, heck a lot of English words have actually gotten their place in our language.
It's the same here with english words in the language. Sad thing is that even words that only sound english are being used to "sound cool".
For example the word "Handy" I mentioned some time ago, which means a "mobile phone". No one speaking english would understand me if I asked for a "handy", yet those little things are called so, because it is "english" and therefor "cool".
Oh yeah. I know germans like to do that. Like my girlfriend could pick a minor german for her study which they called "Deutschland live".
I don´t know about you but to be honest, I think it sounds awful :p English words just sound so out of place in the German language.
But we do not read or see much German. Although I think German would be easier for us to learn.
I once heard a report that until the 60's or 70's it was quite common for dutch people to speak german, but then as an late aftermath of WW II people didn't want to learn it anymore.
I think I heard something similar once, and I think it´s true. A lot of older people here can still be a bit unfriendly towards Germans. They still call them "moffen" and all.
But yeah, I think dutch is very close to "Plattdeutsch" or "Low German". So it shouldn't be that hard for dutch people to learn german and vice versa.
Try if you can understand anything in this video. ^^
I couldn´t really understand much of it. But I can see some similarities here and there. The line: "Zal ik die in een plastic tut(?) stoppen" is very much like dutch except that we say "tas" instead of "tut". And I could also understand "handen hoog" and "ik zegge das nog eenmaal".
For the rest, I think it might be pretty close to the dutch that´s spoken in the eastern provinces of our country. The people that live close to the border. I think a lot of people there speak a mix of german and dutch which is probably that plattdeutsch that you´re talking about.
But since I live in the western side of our country, it´s hard for me to understand. Ordinary german is probably easier for me.
At 9/13/09 05:15 AM, Coop83 wrote:
At 9/12/09 08:04 AM, Auz wrote:
At 9/12/09 06:25 AM, Coop83 wrote:
A foul ball with a count of 2 strikes will not retire a hitter. They get another pitch to swing at. One player endured a 15 pitch at bat this year and then hit a single to have his team walk off as winners.
I don´t really see how that made him win. Is there like another rule besides scoring points that make you win?
With the game in the bottom of the ninth, any run scoring in a tied game will result in a win. There was a runner on first, that got 'pushed' to second by the single, the runner on second advanced to third and the runner at third ran to home, scoring. D-Backs won 4-3, I believe.
Aha, so they still scored a point then.
Almost - you're thinking a bunt, when they drop the ball onto the infield grass and then run to first base. Pitchers tend to do this in order to move runners from first to second and second to third. If they get out and move runners across, then it is a sacrifice (not an at bat recorded, but no hit either). It is possible to bunt for base hits.
Yes that´s what I meant. And so that´s called a "bunt".
Yeah, but bunting is not always a sacrifice.
Yep. I happened to see that this afternoon when I was watching baseball. Or perhaps it was meant as a sacrifice but the batter got lucky. Some korean guy made a bunt and the ball rolled towards the first base. Three players of the dutch team ran towards it and the guy who got to the ball made it slip through his legs. And so the batter made it to first base easily while some other guy made it to third.
I guess our team really sucks ass -.-'
Also, when you only have 1 out, all bases taken and 3 wides vs 0 strikes TWICE, it´s pretty much the maximum chance you can get to score some points right? Yet, the dutch team managed to fuck up and couldn´t get anyone home =/
I mean, to me it seems like a simple low fast ball between first and second should do the trick.
The other sacrifice is a "sac-fly", where a runner is on third base with no outs or one out. The batter hits the ball to the outfield, where he is caught. The runner remains in contact with the base until the catch is made, then runs to home plate, scoring the run.
Alright. So it´s like, you hit it as high and far away as possible to the right side of the field. The one on the third base waits until the ball is caught and then he runs like hell to the home base.
Any position in the outfield can receive a sacrifice fly. Some outfielders have really good arms, so they have the chance of throwing out the runner at home, which makes for some interesting plays.
Alright. But isn´t the right side of the field preferred because it´s away from the guy who tries to run home? Perhaps it doesn´t make much of a difference with through the middle, but to the left doesn´t seem like a good option to me.
Yes, but can batters actually aim for those things? That´s kinda what the term reaching on errors implies. Of course I think a low bouncing ball to the third base will be difficult to stop, but it seems so risky to aim for.
Since errors don't count as hits, hitters don't tend to aim for these things - they would rather hit the ball between the fielders, or over their heads to score hits, rather than reaching on errors. Of course, if you hit the ball to the fielder, running as fast as you can could force them to make a snappy throw that pulls the first baseman 'off the bag', which is why you keep the pressure up.
Right. That´s what I thought.
