Re: Fischer's death again begs the question: Why is there no chess on TV now?
by David Richerby <davidr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Mar 17, 2008 at 08:48 AM
Chris Mattern <matternc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 2008-03-12, David Richerby <davidr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> When anyone outside the USA writes `football', they mean `soccer'.
>>
> Why don't they just write "soccer", then? Less confusing for everybody.
:-)
It's called `optimizing for the common case.' :-P
Dave.
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