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Old 02-05-2013, 01:33 PM   #43
Yamer
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Originally Posted by AR_Six View Post
You can make up your own terms all you like - hell, you can decide to call a sloughfoot a hipcheck if you want, or call a slapshot a backhand. But there are meanings to words in a sport that are established by general use, and at least by that standard, your terminology is wrong.
Curious, what makes your preferred arbitrary standard any more objectively applicable than anyone else's? That's partly rhetorical, but I'm still intrigued by the justification and I have already established mine.
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