Saturday, June 20, 2009

Hmm, TV3, Long Tennis?

On its Saturday-morning enfants entertainment, TV3 shows an instructor coaching the callow school-goers on a rousing game with yellow-green balls, rigid rackets and a sprawling net on a concrete court. The ritzy caption on the screen calls it – LONG TENNIS! What are they teaching the infants? Erm, Roger Federer, can you sms me on how green the LONG at Wimbledon is, when you get there?

13 comments:

  1. I have been wondering about that too. I have heard plenty of nigerians referring to tennis as "long tennis" what's up with that?

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  2. lol..Thats how we know we are home when we see or hear things like that.

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  3. Lol, Ada. It's some strain of laziness, no? For I know people have generally seen "Lawn" written somewhere. It is even now just called tennis, as know, since it is played on a number of different surfaces.

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  4. Yes, you're right, afrofabchic!

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  5. Hmm, alternative sports in Ghana - gulf? long tennis? Come to think of it though, perhaps the game you saw on TV is so far removed from the original sport that in fact it was aptly named. What next Nana Yaw - lawn jump?.

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  6. lazyness when saying 2 words instead of 1? It would be simpler to just say tennis, no?

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  7. Lol, Denise, LAWN JUMP! Btw, have you heard anybody shout "oxide" at a football game? I assure you they meant "offside"! :)

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  8. I agree, Ada, but the people who most need to use simple words tend to be the people who use complex constructions. It may be a complex (pun accidental).

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  9. Pun accidental, lol.

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  10. @ Na'Yaw, the lafree blew his whistle too many times for ocksides.

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  11. Hahaha!!! I'm so late, but this is too classic to let slide! See why Ghana's such a special place...Among other things, we have our own language which is not even ours to start with!

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  12. Hey antye504, thanks for coming by, although late. I agree with that about our own language which is not even ours to start with.

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  13. I heard someone say "neflickt" during a football game. do u know what he meant to say? referee. lol!

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