Cricketweb language on the cricket field

[Natman20]

I almost called someone a nightwatchman

+++ Wat unfiltered now? haha

 

[Jono]

Don't play cricket but always tell people to GAGF in work. Successfully got dire into their everyday lexicon, now GAGF. Getting to work on gun next one thinks.

Actually got EWS's dire pic circulating round my office

Gun's not really a CW term.

Although I guess it may be for Brits.

 

[SJS]

that would just confuse him.

i dont sledge, i let the ball do the talking

I presume you are a philanthropist .... or is it a ventriloquist ? .... whatever

 

[Manee]

I presume you are a philanthropist .... or is it a ventriloquist ? .... whatever

Isn't a philanthropist someone who does things for the good of humanity?

 

[GIMH]

Gun's not really a CW term.

Although I guess it may be for Brits.

Yeah, people don't really use it as an adjective much over here. I never had done prior to CW. When I say it people know what I mean but think I am a bit weird.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Gun's not really a CW term.

Although I guess it may be for Brits.

It's creeping into our commentators' vocabulary by whatever route; in recent weeks both Nasser & Nick Knight have used it as an adjective.

Fully expecting Bumble to end a pontification with "for mine" shortly.

 

[Richard]

A British band used the term "you love like a gun, the power is strong" as far back as 1990 (song was composed in 1989).

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

A British band used the term "you love like a gun, the power is strong" as far back as 1990 (song was composed in 1989).

Fairly sure the word 'gun' has been used as a noun for a long, long time though in the English language. So your needless mention of the fact that song was written a year before it was released is at the far end of the irrelevancy scale.

 

[Richard]

Well you'll forgive me for not being terribly bothered about whether I wasted a handful of characters TBH. It didn't cost me much.

 

[Jamee999]

Fairly sure the word 'gun' has been used as a noun for a long, long time though in the English language. So your needless mention of the fact that song was written a year before it was released is at the far end of the irrelevancy scale.

I was shocked to see the AK-47 described as gun...

 

[GIMH]

It's not CW speak, but ever since someone made a post about how Mark Nicholas always says "sixer" I've been calling all the 6-car trains "sixers."

"Do you wanna get this one, or shall we wait for the Ellesmere Port, that's a sixer" DIRE

 

[Richard]

MartynCorrinIsMyHero.