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Today's A.Word.A.Day uses this quote to illustrate the usage off "Tartarean": > "The late-afternoon skies over lower downtown Denver were Stygian dark and Tartarean dreary, as had been the Rockies in the series with the omnipotent Yankees, when Todd Zeile approached the plate in the culmination of the 10th inning, and there was a fulmination and fulguration of thunder and lightning." Woody Paige; A Ruthian Victory For the Locals; The Denver Post; Jun 21, 2002.< What the hell is that? Culmination of the 10th inning?  I mean, if you don't know the game, don't write about it. It's the bottom of the inning. And how can it be the culmination if they're still playing in the bottom of the 10th as the quote indicates, anyway? Sheesh! And he's gettin' paid to write this stuff? If I ever meet the guy who wrote this in person will somebody please remind me to throw-up on his shoes! Thank you, and good night.
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What the hell is that?
Well, lessee. AHD4 says:
To reach the highest point or degree; climax:
for culminate. I'm not familiar with the game in question but if the despised Yankees had managed to get a couple of cheap runs in the top of the 10th and it was two outs with runners on 1st and 3rd when Zeile came up to bat, that would seem pretty climactic to me.
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I also think he was trying to get the "culmination/fulmination" thang going...
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Its a whole 'nother language. Is this back to the American football thread again or is it, as I suspect from the reference to 'bat', a horse of a different colour (choler)? By the way is that a clockwise or anti-clockwise bat? 
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I know what baseball is, but what's a linquist?
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A linguist is a pitcher who throws spitballs.
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but what's a linquist?... linguaphile! all baseball aside>when Todd Zeile approached the plate in the culmination of the 10th inning, and there was a fulmination and fulguration of thunder and lightning.< I'd lose my lunch on him just for this pile of heavy-handed linquistic calisthenics alone...does anyone here really think this is good writing? Even if he's trying to be "cute and clever" with big words, it ain't workin'!
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I'd lose my lunch on him
De gustibus non carborundum est.
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De gustibus non carborundum est.Decipher, please...even the best Latin/English Dictionary on the web can't seem to do it. Particularly gustibus/gusti. Or is this another dose of "Faldage Latin"?  (and, yes, I know carborundum) http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Latin/
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It's a bastard conflation of de gustibus non disputandum est and illegitimi non carborundum.
Gustus, -us, taste
Gustibus is the dative and (more to the point considering de takes the ablative) ablative plural.
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