"animation"

[Joel Berson]

I am animadverted.

Joel

--- On Mon, 4/1/13, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:

> From: Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
> Subject: [ADS-L] "animation"
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Date: Monday, April 1, 2013, 10:21 AM
> 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."
>
> But in each case, what is shown is not an animation at all
> but rather a slow-motion replay.
>
> Is that a new sense of "animation"?
>
> http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/first-two-blown-calls-mlb-season-come-fast-022940932--mlb.html
>
> Charlie
>
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