"animation"

[Hollis Barnhart]

I have no idea if it's a new sense, but they're gif animations.
 Photographs, drawings, and videos are animated into gifs (they're more
like cartoons).  In this case, it may have been done so that the video
didn't need to be streamed.

The use of "animation" indicates to me that the writer is honestly stating
that it's not the video replay.


Hollis H. Barnhart
hbarnhart at highlands.com
(David's spouse)




On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

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> Yahoo news reports on two blown call by an umpire in last night's baseball
> game.  After the account of each call, the article gives a hot link with
> sentence "Here is an animation."
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> But in each case, what is shown is not an animation at all but rather a
> slow-motion replay.
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> Is that a new sense of "animation"?
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> http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/first-two-blown-calls-mlb-season-come-fast-022940932--mlb.html
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> Charlie
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