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Re: [fracture] To retro or not?:
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jt512
Jun 1, 2007, 4:49 PM
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fracture wrote: jt512 wrote: healyje wrote: the vast majority of gym and sport climbers simply want safe entertainment. Utter nonsense. Entertainment is passive. Wtf? Since when? (My dictionaries say nothing of the sort.) Of course sport climbing is entertainment. It's a sport!
I'm using a definition along the lines of this one from Am. Her.: "Something that amuses, pleases, or diverts, especially a performance or show."
I would never refer to climbing as "entertainment." In fact, I am using the word in the same sense that Joseph is using it sarcastically: something that's safe, easy, passive. He would never call "his kind" of climbing "entertainment," unless he is willing to call it "unsafe entertainment," which I doubt he is willing to do.
Jay
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