At the Olympics: time reference

[Barbara Need]

Well, it is not just broadcasters (a swimmer referred to events that
had happened during the morning as "evening events", and, based on my
TV grid (I don't watch sports usually), the events in question are
not prototypically evening events. I will try to pay attention this
evening(!).

Barbara

On 12 Aug 2008, at 16:10, Alice Faber wrote:

> 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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