{"id":2478,"date":"2007-09-28T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2007\/09\/this-post-is-a-response-to-grass-artificial-grass.html"},"modified":"2007-09-28T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T16:11:00","slug":"this-post-is-a-response-to-grass-artificial-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2007\/09\/this-post-is-a-response-to-grass-artificial-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"This post is a response to Grass = artificial grass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, in a post titled Grass = artificial grass<\/b><\/a> , blogger dl004d<\/span> made an obvsersation about the word usage of “turf” in The Post<\/i> aritcle, For Schools, Artificial Turf Fields Grow in Popularity<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n

I know saying artificial turf is a mouthful, but shortening it to just turf conveys the opposite meaning.<\/p>\n

Turf means grass. Unfortunately, it also means fake grass.<\/p>\n

We need a word that doesn’t convey its exact opposite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How about we just use fakegrass? It is only two syllables and leaves no doubt about whether the field is organic or not.<\/p>\n

The incorrect use of turf has been a problem for as long as I can remember; George Carlin<\/b> made a mention of it in his first (and only good) book Brain Droppings<\/i>. That big problem isn’t linguistics though, it is the use of artificial turf in general. I think playing football, a sport created in the Northeast to be played in the fall, on artificial surfaces is athletically dishonest. Grass stains and mud are part of the game — a fun part of it no less.<\/p>\n

As noted previously, both my high school<\/b><\/a> and Waters Field<\/b><\/a> (where I enjoyed my glory days of anklebiters football<\/i>) have been converted to artificial turf. Vienna’s example is just part of a growing trend that will keep a whole generation of athletes from ever staining their pants with grass or playing in mud. Denying children a chance to play in the natural element is selling them short. <\/p>\n

WON’T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!<\/p>\n

P.S. Once we get the semantics of turf vs. artificial turf decided, maybe we can work on dropping grass from Penn State Center For Turfgrass Science<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

©MMX William F. Yurasko<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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