Both athletes and announcers in the US have lost the ability to refer to a particular sport by only its name: basketball cannot be called "basketball," but must be recited as "the game of basketball;" "football" is "the game of football." They also cannot say anyone gives full effort, but must enhance the effort to a mathematical impossibility -- no one gives less than 110%.

Athletes also find it difficult to refer to themselves using ordinary pronouns, but instead talk of themselves in the third person, using full name. So, Joe Jock says, "Joe Jock always gives 110% when playing the game of basketball."