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[sohum]

Sohum, will you do a short season, or full?

29-game (playing each team once).

 

[nightprowler10]

Sounds good. Hopefully 12 min quarters.

 

[sohum]

Yep, fosho. You wanna help me figure out height/minutes in the story thread?

 

[Aditya]

Lawn Tennis? What's that? Backyard tennis?

Tennis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lawn tennis or Tennis whatever you wanna call it.

 

[Varun]

I'll be interested for sure.

 

[pcfan123]

It's just called Tennis

 

[treva]

The proper name of tennis is lawn tennis, as apposed to the British upper class game real tennis.

A Level PE does come in handy occasionally

 

[Ollie_H]

It's just called Tennis

One of the things I have realized, and whilst this is completely off topic, is that the sub continent members to actually have a fair grasp of English. It's just not Modern English, the way they structure the sentences and vocabulary used is very reminiscent of an older style of English.

 

[pcfan123]

The proper name of tennis is lawn tennis, as apposed to the British upper class game real tennis.

A Level PE does come in handy occasionally

that may be the case but I have never in my life heard it referred to as "lawn tennis"

no one has ever asked me to play "lawn tennis" with them. I have however played "tennis" many times

 

[treva]

Of course, it is a very old and outdated term. It is, however, still correct. It might still be known as Lawn Tennis in other parts of the world.

 

[Aditya]

Yeah, I thought that maybe in the other parts of the world it's called "lawn tennis" but I guess not much members here are familiar with tennis being called lawn tennis.

 

[AbhishekS]

It should actually be called as 'Tennis' but as many get confused between 'Tennis' and 'Table tennis', people here (in Mumbai) usually use the term 'Lawn tennis' for 'Tennis'.

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This is something useful I found.

The History of Tennis

 

[Ollie_H]

that may be the case but I have never in my life heard it referred to as "lawn tennis"

no one has ever asked me to play "lawn tennis" with them. I have however played "tennis" many times

One of the things I have realized, and whilst this is completely off topic, is that the sub continent members to actually have a fair grasp of English. It's just not Modern English, the way they structure the sentences and vocabulary used is very reminiscent of an older style of English.

Dum

 

[pcfan123]

haha woops.

I have noticed that they use older English when watching cricket though, some of the SC commentators use phrases which I've only read in books or heard in older movies.

"He's a smooth operator" haha

 

[Ollie_H]

That's what I'm saying, hence the use of the term 'lawn tennis'. I mean even American English has remnants of a mid 1900's British English and then the sub continent English obviously goes even further back to the ye olde days of English.