Mar. 16th, 2019

...what

Mar. 16th, 2019 06:15 pm
ysobel: (easily distracted)
At one point today I was relating an anecdote about badminton, but couldn’t remember the word. So I said "what's the thing that's not tennis?"

Scarily, my friend suggested badminton right away, which is good because I had forgotten "shuttlecock" also, but half remembered it, and I'm pretty sure "where you bat around a floaty rocket chicken" would have helped.

...

...yeah.

(I'm totally fascinated with both momentary-word-forgettery and the linguistic thing where "the thing that's *not* X" conveys "but is similar in some ways". Because technically everything other than tennis is "a thing that's not tennis" but only a few things can be relevantly described that way; badminton, ping pong, maybe volleyball?)

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