{"id":1293,"date":"2011-09-08T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2011-09-08T12:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T16:00:07","slug":"jocktalk-we-played-our-a-game-today-luckily-there-were-a-lot-of-a-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"Jocktalk: We played our A-Game today! Luckily there were a lot of &quot;a&quot; words."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.,<\/em> To speak in an inspirational but perhaps incomprehensible manner by stringing together a series of grunts and clich&eacute;s. <em>n.,<\/em> An inarticulate TV or radio, post-game interview, typically given by a panting, toothless, sweating, verbally-challenged, and hugely overpaid, athletic superstar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/champs.gif\" alt=\"We played our A-Game today! Luckily there were a lot of &quot;a&quot; words. \" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jocktalk<\/strong>:  \/<em>jok tok<\/em>\/ Sammy Strap the local sports reporter was used to understanding jocktalk when teams were being interviewed after a game. He could understand hocktalk;golftalk;hooptalk;punttalk any other kind of stopclocktalk.  But when he had to interview the Spelling Bee champs, he found they spoke annoyingly with vowel trouble, a term he later coined as irritable vowel syndrome. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Jock (athlete) &amp; Talk (verbal expression;conversation) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Platichatter<\/strong>:  \/<em>platichat\u00c9\u2122r<\/em>\/ After an embarrassing comment or two, the coach decided to give players a few talking points to consider. Now the post-game interviews have become so much platichatter. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  platitude (a remark or statement, esp. one with a moral content, that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful) + chatter (talk rapidly or incessantly about trivial matters) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=champs\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=champs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: v., To speak in an inspirational but perhaps incomprehensible manner by stringing together a series of grunts and clich&eacute;s. n., An inarticulate TV or radio, post-game interview, typically given by a panting, toothless, sweating, verbally-challenged, and hugely overpaid, athletic superstar. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Jocktalk: \/jok tok\/ Sammy Strap the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1293\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jocktalk: We played our A-Game today! Luckily there were a lot of &quot;a&quot; words.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}