People who call "No!" instead of "Out!"

[OrangePower]

Originally Posted by Wuppy

Am I alone in not being able to stand people who yell "No" instead of "Out?" Every single person I've played with or seen playing who did this was an egomaniac. I saw some guy doing it today and it was obnoxious.

Discuss.

I yell "FAIL, SUCKER!" and then I laugh. I do this on every ball my opponent hits out.

[KFwinds]

Who yells "out"? I don't think I have ever used "out", and don't play against anyone who does...

I'm another "no" man

[Wuppy]

Originally Posted by Venetian

I yell vamos and pump my fists repeatedly.

I do that when the opponent is a 70 year old woman and she double-faults.

[dcdoorknob]

There have been a number of threads over time in this sub-forum where I've thought, 'man, people get annoyed by lots of fairly inconsequential things on the tennis court.' But this seems to set a new standard.

Congrats!

[LanEvo]

I say "second".

[retlod]

I sometimes call "BACK" on serves. Otherwise it's "NO."

[Larrysümmers]

i scream NEIN! when the ball is out. is that better?

[corbind]

Originally Posted by Sim

A lot of the people I've seen play say "No!", and I do it as well.

Doesn't bother me one bit.

I actually think "Out!" is more obnoxious when they try to get under your skin and yell it really loudly...

I say either and agree that OUT seems more derogatory than NO.

[Angle Queen]

I have a teammate who, often in her sweetest voice, says "no, no" just like one might to a small child. I'll admit it sometimes is a little irritating but then I just laugh and when I hit a winner, I'll say "yes, yes," to myself. And I get over it.

Life's too short.

[tennis tom]

Originally Posted by Wuppy

I was recently playing with a chick who was calling "wide" and "long" and she was getting them mixed up so she'd go "long! I mean wide!"

Was she blond? My girlfriend who is blond comes up with blondism's all the time. To me they are hilarious, I'm going to compile a blond dictionary of them. The other day she was trying to say pomeranian dog and she called it a pomegranate dog.

Thank you for this thread Wuppy, it's a great warm-up thread for the long week-end to come. No one will risk any serious brain damage replying to this thread--a little kinesic tape on the forehead should take care of any lost brain plasticity.

I am a minimalist, I prefer "out", it covers so may circumstances. Why add more to the tennis vocabulary then is absolutely necessary? "Wide" and "long" each have four letter and over the course of a long match on a hot day, the burden of these superfluous letters may make all the difference in winning or losing.

What really irks me, is servers who announce "second serve" when everyone on the planet knows that after you miss your first serve, the next will be a second--why, why is this needed? It goes against all attempts to preserve matter. Thanks again for this warm-up thread, I hope I didn't derail it, but it was probably time to. I'm now ready to do a hot-tub and then who knows?

[gavna]

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO - get over it - if someone gets under your skin just by saying no you must lose a bunch. Man up and just keep the damn ball in!

[tennis tom]

Originally Posted by tennis tom

I am a minimalist, I prefer "out", it covers so may circumstances. Why add more to the tennis vocabulary then is absolutely necessary? "Wide" and "long" each have four letter and over the course of a long match on a hot day, the burden of these superfluous letters may make all the difference in winning or losing.

OMG, I'm reduced to quoting myself! I just reread the title of the thread and realized I've been living a life of hypocrisy to my minimalist credo. "NO" has fewer letters than "OUT"! From now on I'm saying "NO"--sorry Wuppy.

[Wuppy]

OUT is easier for the human mouth to generate than NO so...

Look up the hindu chant-word "AUM," it's supposed to be the vibration of the soul itself.

[Angle Queen]

Originally Posted by Wuppy

OUT is easier for the human mouth to generate than NO so...

Look up the hindu chant-word "AUM," it's supposed to be the vibration of the soul itself.

Perhaps physically. But I'm a mother of two small children. Not only is "NO" really easy to say, I say it a lot! LOL

[Wuppy]

Originally Posted by Angle Queen

Perhaps physically. But I'm a mother of two small children. Not only is "NO" really easy to say, I say it a lot! LOL

Exactly, and that's my point, it sounds like you're shouting at a little kid when you call "No" instead of "Out." It seems very confrontational and rude to me.

[gavna]

Originally Posted by Wuppy

Exactly, and that's my point, it sounds like you're shouting at a little kid when you call "No" instead of "Out." It seems very confrontational and rude to me.

Jeez man up dude......I've been playing for over 45yrs and have been and playing with people using NO or NON or NYET or NOOOOOOO! Man this attitude is the kind of sissy and pansy a**ed stuff that gives tennis such a soft reputation.

[Angle Queen]

Originally Posted by Wuppy

Exactly, and that's my point, it sounds like you're shouting at a little kid when you call "No" instead of "Out." It seems very confrontational and rude to me.

It is neither confrontational nor rude. It is the answer. Unless you say it like Rafa, no?

[Topaz]

I think NO is much easier to say quickly than out. YMMV.

[iantrevor]

Originally Posted by Wuppy

OUT is easier for the human mouth to generate than NO so...

Look up the hindu chant-word "AUM," it's supposed to be the vibration of the soul itself.

Ah! Count the phonemes. "No" is mathematically easier to say than "out."

[jswinf]

Originally Posted by Wuppy

Am I alone in not being able to stand people who yell "No" instead of "Out?"

Seems this question has been pretty thoroughly answered in the affirmative. Sorry about your lonliness.

I like 'no' because when a floater's coming that I'm pretty sure will be long I can quietly start with the "nnn" part and only unleash the "O" when it lands out. If I try to do that with "ow" people think I'm in pain.