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#209518 - 02/11/13 10:23 PM Re: Football? [Re: Faldage]
Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,075 Rhubarb Commando old hand
Rhubarb Commando old hand Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,075 Lancaster, UK	Originally Posted By: Faldage And by "get a shot" I did mean "obtain a photograph". aha! Now is the winter of your missed intent made glorious something by this sum of talk. I'm immortal until proven otherwise

#209521 - 02/11/13 11:32 PM Re: Football? [Re: BranShea]
Joined: May 2010 Posts: 959 Tromboniator old hand
Tromboniator old hand Joined: May 2010 Posts: 959 Alaska	Originally Posted By: BranShea adequately explained by Tromboniatior xept that the last phrase was bit confusing So you could get a shot of the player getting a shot after getting a shot. Or the other way round. You could take a photo of the player receiving an injection after kicking the ball at the goal, or kicking the ball at the goal after receiving an injection. It was intended to demonstrate the irony of my statement that it was simple. I have a tendency to get too clever for my own good, as my entire family will attest.

#209528 - 02/12/13 08:42 AM Re: Football? [Re: Tromboniator]
Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 BranShea Carpal Tunnel
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague	No no,it was funny enough, I understood the little game you played but I was following my tunnelviewed train of thought focussed on 'to get a shot ', 'to take a shot' or 'to give a shot'. It was about the differences of meaning between these verbs. We give a shot, the Brits take a shot and the Americans get a shot. Nitpicking on kicking (or the other way around) .

#209530 - 02/12/13 12:12 PM Re: Football? [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803	Incidentally, to further clarify (or muddy) things, what I specifically meant when I said "get a shot" was "find a photograph already taken by some photographer of a football player kicking the ball with his left foot." There is, of course, nothing in this proposed action to eliminate the possibility that the photographer in question would be you, in which case the act of taking the picture would be referred to a "getting a shot." "Getting a shot" in American parlance could also refer to the player finding an opportunity to kick the ball at the goal.

#209535 - 02/12/13 03:11 PM Re: Football? [Re: BranShea]
Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 tsuwm Carpal Tunnel
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,538 this too shall pass	" We give a shot, the Brits take a shot and the Americans get a shot." no, no, no! we don't differ from the Brits here, we just don't do it in football! (altho you might colloquially say, "we're running out of time here - let's take a shot at the end zone."

#209537 - 02/12/13 05:13 PM Re: Football? [Re: tsuwm]
Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 BranShea Carpal Tunnel
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague	Right, I understand by now that American football is played by ....hand. And shoot! it's allright, give it take it or leave it.

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