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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
3 syllables
Time and space takes roughly the same time to say as McDavid , without superlatives
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Long vowels take longer to say than schwas. Plus you can draw out those ‘m’ and ‘s’ sounds.
(This is the kind of useless crap you learn when you major in linguistics. They measure speech sounds in milliseconds, for crying out loud.)
The thing is, you can talk about McDavid all through an intermission no matter who's playing. But if the Oilers are not in the game, it's tough to work that name in every minute of the actual PBP. So ‘time and space’ is the currently fashionable filler noise.
Hey, things could be worse. We could have Roger Millions saying ‘he couldn't handle it cleanly’ every time a player flubs receiving a pass.