Comments on: badmintion

By: ƜƖȤƛƊƠƦƛ ☀

ƜƖȤƛƊƠƦƛ ☀ — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:50:27 +0000

Sometimes you just have to go with the flow, there's not much you can say to him as he is your teacher, and in school your superior.

Have a word with another teacher or maybe tell your parents to subtly email or ring up the school.

I'm from England, so i don't know much about the American school system, but that's what I would do.

By: Marcus Bales

Marcus Bales — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:36:56 +0000

notevenanargument said: “You’ve been shown a pattern, a meaning-constituted-and-in-dialectical-turn-meaning-making structure, of perceiving/thinking verbs in The Snow Man, a pattern which governs, as it were, the actual meanings that the poem could mean: a “rule arising from within” The Snow Man.”But they’re not unique to that one poem. You could use those rules to write any poem, and because they’re not unique to that one poem, they can’t be said to arise from that poem. They are external rules that the poet applies to language to create a poem. That’s different from your claim that the rules arise from the poem itself. And that’s even without wondering how a poem, as yet unwritten, could generate rules for a self not yet extant.notevenanargument said: “You’ve been shown two literary/linguistic rules that have a special character – a ‘poetic’ character – when they’re used in the heightened or distilled or clarifying or vivifying language of a poem.”But they’re not unique to that one poem. You could use those rules to write any poem, and because they’re not unique to that one poem, they can’t be said to arise from that poem. They are external rules that the poet applies to language to create a poem. That’s different from your claim that the rules arise from the poem itself. And that’s even without wondering how a poem, as yet unwritten, could generate rules for a self not yet extant.notevenanargument said: “’Returning the ball inside the lines on the other side of the net’ is a rule of tennis; it’s also a rule of badminton. Rules in two different games can be the same rule and yet different rules.”I suppose they could, if badminton used balls. But even allowing for that slip of the tongue, you’re proving my point for me: that the rules you are trying to show arising from the poem are, in fact, external rules that could apply to other poems, even other non-poem writing.notevenanargument said: “You’ve been shown the rule of lineation, a rule that obtains in the case, for example, of The Snow Man. You again claim (inclusively) that the lines in this poem are arbitrary, whimsical, capricious, or, now, irrelevant.”That’s right, I do – because when you read ‘The Snow Man’, either aloud or to yourself, you don’t pause at the end of all the lines – or if you do, you’re making a mockery of how the language works. Free verse necessarily allows the lines to end anywhere for no reason – that’s part of its claim to be ‘free’ – and it offers no rules at all about why to end this line here or that line there. You may offer that the poet’s judgment ends lines where they do, but that, again, is an external rule: the poet’s judgment. You’re not showing how the poem itself generates its own rules, which is your claim.

By: robert a

robert a — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 08:10:57 +0000

It's called platform tennis, played with paddles instead of strung racket, basically same rules as tennis.

By: Decoy

Decoy — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 02:04:23 +0000

I just linked the Badminton World Federation website.

There is really too much to explain.

Current scoring system in tournaments is called Rally Scoring. Basically if you win the rally you get a point. The Goal is to get 21 points is a game, but if the score is 20-20 then you have to win by 2 points (example 22-20, or 24-22). Though maximum score is 30.

There are a lot of different strategies if your playing singles or doubles.

By: MrSpeedNPower

MrSpeedNPower — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:56:01 +0000

Congrats Michelle. Hope to see you more on badminton courts.

By: Takezo

Takezo — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:27:52 +0000

i think one of the main reason is that it lacks media attention.

seeing badminton is a major game in SEA (southeast asia) it get broadcasted Asia wide when a big tournament is held.

And tennis is like greatly overrated just like any other sports such as soccer and basket ball due to over attention of the media.

so, i guess swuash lacks the amount of awareness of the public on how the game is played, what skills it requires.

when all these are clear that its more skill demamnding than the games u mentioned, and mass media exposure. It is needless to say, the "squash is lame" thinking will be overturned. Not totally, but at least greatly .

By: Stewart McClelland

Stewart McClelland — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:34:10 +0000

Chad, part of the skill of this production is also director Marti Maraden’s excellent blocking in that long and unwieldy (sometimes badminton court )space. Ms Maraden, a Stratford veteran, actually directed from the far corners, against the wall, so the sightlines are exceptional throughout. But the ‘exit…pursued by a ”tin foil’ bear’ was weird, yours, Stewart

By: FIAR

FIAR — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:47:38 +0000

1. Fitch is incapable of sleep.
2. Olympic badminton rules say that Fitch must have exactly fourteen feathers.
3. Half a cup of Fitch contains only seventeen calories.
4. It can take Fitch several days to move just through one tree.
5. Fitch is the only one of the original Seven Wonders of the World that still survives!
6. Two grams of Fitch provide enough energy to power a television for over twenty-three hours.
7. If you break Fitch, you will get seven years of bad luck!
8. Humans share over 98 percent of their DNA with Fitch.
9. Fitch is the sacred animal of Thailand!
10. Fitch can last longer without water than a camel can!

By: grex101

grex101 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:16:31 +0000

Dude, I don't even now the rules to THAT sport. I only know the rules to…tag. just. I knw Volleyball though! + badminton