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Re: [fracture] To retro or not?:
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jt512
Jun 2, 2007, 3:52 PM
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fracture wrote: can I get you to agree that what you think the word ["entertainment"] means to you is apparently not what it means to the typical native English speaker?
No, I've never heard anyone refer to rock climbing as entertainment.
In reply to: For another thing, physical sport is entertainment, too.
I completely disagree. I've participated in rock climbing, sky diving, yoga, judo, karate, aikido, kung fu, tai chi chuan, fencing, and god knows what else, and I've never thought of any of those pastimes as "entertainment." I doubt that my usage of the word is that different from most native English speakers. Frankly, I think yours is.
Of all the definitions listed here, none explicitly mentions physical sport; and although you could exptrapolate "agreeable occupation of the mind" to include physical sports, I think it's a bit of a stretch, and not one that most people would make in their routine usage of the word.
Jay
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