@HottieAutie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-27 months agoWhy do sports have different names for their arbitrating officials?message-square9fedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up153arrow-down1message-squareWhy do sports have different names for their arbitrating officials?@HottieAutie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish • edit-27 months agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
Referee, umpire, official, judge, etc. Why are there different names rather than just one? edit: by request, stewards also.
minus-square@xmunk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink34•7 months agoThey’re jargon and they developed independently… sports jargon has a strong continuation pressure because there’s a lot of esoteric knowledge and an in crowd that wants you to know they’re inside the bubble.
minus-square@some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilink3•7 months ago inside the bubble. Hence the term: inside baseball.
minus-squareJaggedRobotPubeslinkfedilinkEnglish1•7 months agoAnd see, football and tennis and rowing have completely different terms for that. Really makes you think.
They’re jargon and they developed independently… sports jargon has a strong continuation pressure because there’s a lot of esoteric knowledge and an in crowd that wants you to know they’re inside the bubble.
Hence the term: inside baseball.
And see, football and tennis and rowing have completely different terms for that.
Really makes you think.