Re: ATP WTA Wimbledon GS 6/27/22 - 7/10/22
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2022 9:10 pm
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Seriously???ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 10, 2022 2:37 am I don't think anyone should comment on the character of someone they dont even know personally and intimately. We need to appreciate that everyone is different .if Kyrgios curses, that doesn't make him a bad person, I just don't know him personally. I curse too, when I miss a simple overhead..doesn't make me a bad person, and all the other players laugh and move on...
Whoever asked that question should have had enough sense to not use the word 'condemn' with someone whose primary language is very obviously not English.
Now you are commenting on me, someone you don't have the slightest knowledge or understanding of .. leave it at that.Deuce wrote: ↑Sun Jul 10, 2022 2:57 amSeriously???ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 10, 2022 2:37 am I don't think anyone should comment on the character of someone they dont even know personally and intimately. We need to appreciate that everyone is different .if Kyrgios curses, that doesn't make him a bad person, I just don't know him personally. I curse too, when I miss a simple overhead..doesn't make me a bad person, and all the other players laugh and move on...
Wow.
For the umpteenth time... one does not have to know a person personally or intimately or for 10 years in order to accurately assess the behaviour that one witnesses from them. Especially repeated behaviour.
Again - I find it incredible how you always conveniently and completely disregard a player's comportment and character and personality and assess them only on their ability to hit a fuzzy yellow ball. That ability is less than 5% of who they are.
They are human beings, not inanimate machines.
I must wonder how you determine who your friends will be. If you do you not assess their comportment/behaviour/character in order to decide which people are worthy of your continued attention and friendship, and which are not - before you know them intimately and/or for a few years, then how do you make this determination?
And if you think that the only negative thing that Kyrgios has done is "curse" (like you and virtually everyone else), I strongly suggest that you watch more closely. It's impossible to miss.
I'd be willing to bet a lot of money Elena understood it perfectly well. It's just that she can't give any safe answer to such a question. Someone more confident perhaps would have replied "no comment".Deuce wrote: ↑Sun Jul 10, 2022 3:15 amWhoever asked that question should have had enough sense to not use the word 'condemn' with someone whose primary language is very obviously not English.
And he/she did it twice! Incredible.
We see this far too often - English speaking reporters and journalists asking questions of players from non-English speaking countries, and speaking to them as if they are fluently English - because, of course, EVERYONE must understand English, right?
Doing this is arrogant, disrespectful, dumb, and defies all logic and common sense.
No - I'm commenting on your repeated expressed perspective that no-one should ever comment on another person's behaviour or perspective or anything which involves the revealing of their character/personality unless we know them 'intimately'.ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 10, 2022 8:29 amNow you are commenting on me, someone you don't have the slightest knowledge or understanding of .. leave it at that.Deuce wrote: ↑Sun Jul 10, 2022 2:57 amSeriously???ashkor87 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 10, 2022 2:37 am I don't think anyone should comment on the character of someone they dont even know personally and intimately. We need to appreciate that everyone is different .if Kyrgios curses, that doesn't make him a bad person, I just don't know him personally. I curse too, when I miss a simple overhead..doesn't make me a bad person, and all the other players laugh and move on...
Wow.
For the umpteenth time... one does not have to know a person personally or intimately or for 10 years in order to accurately assess the behaviour that one witnesses from them. Especially repeated behaviour.
Again - I find it incredible how you always conveniently and completely disregard a player's comportment and character and personality and assess them only on their ability to hit a fuzzy yellow ball. That ability is less than 5% of who they are.
They are human beings, not inanimate machines.
I must wonder how you determine who your friends will be. If you do you not assess their comportment/behaviour/character in order to decide which people are worthy of your continued attention and friendship, and which are not - before you know them intimately and/or for a few years, then how do you make this determination?
And if you think that the only negative thing that Kyrgios has done is "curse" (like you and virtually everyone else), I strongly suggest that you watch more closely. It's impossible to miss.
On what do you base your perspective that she understood the question perfectly well?Suliso wrote: ↑Sun Jul 10, 2022 9:05 amI'd be willing to bet a lot of money Elena understood it perfectly well. It's just that she can't give any safe answer to such a question. Someone more confident perhaps would have replied "no comment".Deuce wrote: ↑Sun Jul 10, 2022 3:15 amWhoever asked that question should have had enough sense to not use the word 'condemn' with someone whose primary language is very obviously not English.
And he/she did it twice! Incredible.
We see this far too often - English speaking reporters and journalists asking questions of players from non-English speaking countries, and speaking to them as if they are fluently English - because, of course, EVERYONE must understand English, right?
Doing this is arrogant, disrespectful, dumb, and defies all logic and common sense.
P.S. English is not my native language either.