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Dood tennis scores aint self expression. theyre math
And the math works out the same, so why does anyone give a ****?
Dood tennis scores aint self expression. theyre math
any mathematician will tell u that needless complication is a cardinal sin
And the math works out the same, so why does anyone give a ****?
U may as well call games 1, 2, 3, game as well. I mean it means the same thing so what's the problem rite?
That pretty much says it all. Calling ad in for 40-30 happens all the time. I never noticed it before I started this thread, but it is EXTREMELY common.
Yes, nothing says "simple" like reliance on a translation of the original French.
I play against people that use all sorts of weird nicknames for point. One lady will call 30-love 3-love. I tend to clarify that one in case she's using no-ad scoring, in which case the 3 means 40, not 30.
I've also played against people in no-ad round robins that call 40-30 ad in. Which really annoys the organizers, that think that court is playing ad games.
Coming up with weird scoring is a great way to get that extra half a second on a serve while the opponent is attempting to decipher what exactly you mean. While your opponent is figuring out how we got to add in after they won the last two points you can blaze a serve past them. That's why in an official match it's not kosher.
HAHA nice one
Is there anyone out there that actually doesn't know that duece means "two"?
Yea, it's an old French word. But, seriously who in modern English speaking countries doesn't know?
I've heard enough folks claim to be heading to "drop a duece" to know that they aren't just taking a leak.
It's "Deuce," by the way. "Duece" doesn't mean anything.
You may now resume calling other people stupid.
Good lord.
I played a seniors match last week, and one lady calls the score during games with numbers. Like, she would step up to serve and say "One Three." Geez-o-flip, that was confusing. She was forcing me to do something dangerously close to *actual math* in the middle of a match. "What did she say? One Three. OK, the one is 15, that's easy. What's the three? Um . . . One is 15 and two is 30 and three is 40, so she must be calling the score as 15-40."
It was so bothersome that I started announcing the score before she stepped up to serve.
I wonder if a roving umpire would address this if a player called for an official to make an opponent stop calling the game score as "Three Zero."
And the math works out the same, so why does anyone give a ****?
Good point. Henceforth, I will use math to call out the score. I can hear it now:
"OK, set score is square root of nine all."
"Good shot. That's five times six to twenty times two."
"In lieu of a third set, we'll be playing a 98 minus negative two divided by ten tiebreak."
You really think that compares to whether there is a difference between 30-all and 40-all?
Points for smarty pantness though. If you do this, please post a video. Would be interesting to see if they ask for a let. Possibly just to see where you are placing parentheses.