Good Morning America. Is The Reality Starting To Sink In Now?

Parents tend to get all riled up when others are critical of their offspring, even if it is only an implied dig by a man-child president! I wonder whether these players filed their escapade under "A Lark" as they cheerfully set about their shoplifting adventure. They ought to know better. Giddy during a first trip abroad perhaps? Influenced by Ryan Lochte et al? Here's may favorite lark, this one from a Chinese twelve-year-old (well, thirteen, actually) in Egypt, who I am sure subsequently "built up enough character".

Note that there are no "sportsmen" (ought that to be "sportspersons"? "sportspeople"?) in the United States - interestingly, the word is seldom used. They are all mere "athletes"**, only there to compete and win, nothing loftier.

**From the Greek "athlon" -> "prize" and "athlein" -> "compete for a prize".

 

Sure. I have senn"athletes" used rather broadly, "players" of course, but "sportsmen" is relatively rare.

 

Yes indeed. However, "players" are seldom referred to as "sportsmen"! Here's a google N-gram, showing that the word hit an all time low in the 2000s. I bet it would be lower still if one were to restrict the search to the US.

Here's another graph showing the corresponding rise of the word "athlete".

 

@Induslady thanks !

 

Trump demonstrated that his new bff Xi jinping can do him the kind of favors, that he himself couldn't do in USA. When US citizens are in legal jeopardy in foreign countries, they ought to get consular assistance. Nothing more.
Dark skinned people get greater scrutiny in China's upscale shops already. HK, Shanghai and Guangzhou are places where africans, and darker skinned asians get an attendant jump out of nowhere and attach themselves to the dark browsers, and pester and rush the shopper to make a choice and get out.
One malaysian (chinese) friend commented that these guys got off easy in China; if it were in home country, they'd have been shot already.

 

Agreed