At the Olympics: time reference

[Alice Faber]

I lost the beginning of this thread. But, as I recall, it was about
broadcasters using "this evening" referring to a sports event occurring
during daylight hours. This is something that we've discussed previously
with regard to "day baseball" and the like. Because for many sports the
default game-time is after dinner, it's not at all unusual for any
temporal adverbs referring to game-time events to be from the set
"tonight", "this evening", etc.

Barbara Need wrote:
> I don't think so. After all, many of the athletes being interviewed
> are from other US time zones. And I never had any problem knowing
> what time of day it was where I was--but always had to count to
> figure out what time it was back in the States when abroad (South
> America and Europe).
>
>
> On 12 Aug 2008, at 14:30, David Bergdahl wrote:
>
>> Isn't the time reference thing simply that to the speakers "NY
>> Time" is *
>> real* and everything else is foreign?
>> -db
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Doug Harris
>> <cats22 at frontiernet.net> wrote:
>>
>>> That really gives new meaning to getting ahead of oneself, doesn't
>>> it?
>>> Thanks for pointing that out.
>>> (Then again, if you're looking to bet on a sure thing, getting that
>>> far in front of everyone else could pay off!)
>>> dh
>>>
>>> Matthew Gordon said:
>>> ---
>>>
>>> There is also apparently a significant time difference between
>>> whereever
>>> Doug Harris is and the mainland US. It's already September (or
>>> December if
>>> he's European) there.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/12/08 11:05 AM, "Doug Harris" <cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I imagine that [post-facto dubbing] actually _is_ the case --
>>>> but who's fooling who? Anyone who doesn't understand there's
>>>> a (significant) time difference from China to the mainland US
>>>> should devote less attention to the Olympics and more to what
>>>> used to be _basic_ studies in this country.
>>>> dh
>>>>
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