It's playoff season and the announcers seem worse than ever. A few of their semantic indelicacies have been around for a while, though. For example:
After further review - no, you stupid jerk. It was the first review. The referee who used this term is a lawyer. You, the broadcaster, have attended Quinnipiac and should know better.
Patrick Chung struggled out there - no, he didn't struggle. If he had struggled, perhaps he might have made a play or two. What you mean is that Patrick Chung sucks. Or was that Connie Chung out there?
It Is What It Is - but what IS it, anyway? This magnificent piece of obfuscation comes, I believe, from a Bill Belichick press conference. It means "I' m not going to comment on that." However, for broadcasters, the phrase is apparently significant. But of what?
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