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July 6, 2010
Best use of the F-word in the New York Times this month
My bold:
Sumo experts say that the sport, like Japan's overall economy, became bloated during the economic heyday of the 1980s, and then failed to adapt to leaner times by downsizing. The number of stables -- the semifeudal camps where wrestlers live and train -- is now 51, twice as many as in 1970. Yet the number of wrestlers has declined in the last two decades to fewer than 700 from 1,000.
See the qualifiers in the headline. Read about the f-word here. Be sure to catch the comparativist point of view. The author should also be whacked for the arch use of 'bloated' and 'leaner' in an article about sumo.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at July 6, 2010 7:32 AM