Do Euros really talk like this?
01-25-07, 09:36 PM
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Do Euros really talk like this?
or is it just the translation?
Tom Boonen:
."
Tom Boonen:
"I am departing for Qatar but it is without the soul of a rider," confessed the 26 year-old Belgian star to La Gazzetta dello Sport's Ciro Scognamiglio. "I feel that I have come [to Qatar] lacking stimulus and motivation. I am shocked and mortified
01-25-07, 09:39 PM
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Yes they are a little more poetic than their sporting brethren in N.A. Don't forget that sport and poetics are originally connected: it's there in the Odyssey and the Iliad. Euros are more aware of that sort of tradition.
01-25-07, 09:40 PM
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How is that in any way different from normal speech?
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01-25-07, 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Machka
How is that in any way different from normal speech?
I'm headin to Qatar but I feel like crap
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I wonder if he refers to himself as "the Tom." 
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I was looking for old quotes by EURO and I found this:
Originally Posted by EURO
shimano gives you cancer
Originally Posted by EURO
I don't love you. I actually really hate you as a person. Like if I met you, I'd spit in your face and punch you.
Originally Posted by EURO
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01-25-07, 10:04 PM
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/\/\ Thanks for digging some classics
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Originally Posted by Dial_tone
because an Americano would have said
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Originally Posted by paule
Dude, please don't lump me into your "Americano" definition as it makes my soul weary.
A *real* Americano would have said, "WTF is Qatar? Man I don't even know how to pronounce that *****. I think it's over by, like Mexico or eye-rack or something. But anyway, that's where I'm goin', and I don't feel too good."
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Originally Posted by DXchulo
shimano gives you cancer.
01-25-07, 10:30 PM
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Originally Posted by paule
Dude, please don't lump me into your "Americano" definition as it makes my soul weary.
01-25-07, 10:44 PM
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Many non-English speaking European languages are quite poetic. Even Mandarin is more poetic than the southern Chinese dialects.
Originally Posted by Dial_tone
or is it just the translation?
Tom Boonen:
."
Tom Boonen:
."
01-25-07, 10:45 PM
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It might be also the Italian guy that got it wrong, believe me I know....
Ciro Scognamiglio might have only taken English literature in high school.
And who knows in what language the original comments were.
On the other hand most pro cyclist and soccer player are made fun of because of their language.
And the same is for many other sports where you have to work hard to get to the top.
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Ciro Scognamiglio might have only taken English literature in high school.
And who knows in what language the original comments were.
On the other hand most pro cyclist and soccer player are made fun of because of their language.
And the same is for many other sports where you have to work hard to get to the top.
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No... I think he is being literal. If what the latest reports say of quickstep is true, they have blown all of their money on hookers, cocaine and ecxtasy.
https://velonews.com/news/fea/11516.0.html
If true, perhaps all he had left was his soul and he sold it for his next epo regimen.
https://velonews.com/news/fea/11516.0.html
If true, perhaps all he had left was his soul and he sold it for his next epo regimen.
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It's an English translation of an Italian newspaper interviewing a Belgian cyclist, I am surprised that it even made a complete sentence.
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Originally Posted by Dial_tone
I am heavy of heart from your words, my friend.
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01-26-07, 06:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Dial_tone
or is it just the translation?
Tom Boonen:
."
Tom Boonen:
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01-26-07, 06:06 AM
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Qatar? Sounds like something I heard on 24. Better send jack bauer and his man purse to check this Boonen guy out.
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Originally Posted by slvoid
Qatar? Sounds like something I heard on 24. Better send jack bauer and his man purse to check this Boonen guy out.
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Originally Posted by Grasschopper
It's a European carry all......
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Originally Posted by roadwarrior
Looks like a Manpurse to me...
A Manbag.