Re:Two men die in Ironman Cork competition in Ireland
by FrustratedMonky on Sunday August 20, 2023 @06:33PM
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Yeah, that is kind of insulting.
Guess people don't realize there are many lengths of triathlons.
Fulls and Halfs are typically done together with an extra lap or leg added in for the Full.
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Re:Two men die in Ironman Cork competition in Ireland
by mtmail on Sunday August 20, 2023 @06:40PM
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Not sure I understand the insult. The article mentioned the distances and called it half ironman (Ironman 70.3 might be more correct, but I think everybody calls that half anyway).
Adding the word to the title doesn't make a huge difference to me "Two men die in Half Ironman Cork competition in Ireland"
Re:Two men die in Ironman Cork competition in Ireland
by FrustratedMonky on Sunday August 20, 2023 @06:43PM
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Guess wording can be taken in different ways.
>"They were competing in a so-called half Ironman event".
This seemed to indicate it was a lesser event. "so-called". But maybe it was just referring to a type of event. And it was just poor grammar?
Who knows, maybe it was GPT producing the text?
Re:Two men die in Ironman Cork competition in Ireland
by cauthon on Sunday August 20, 2023 @06:53PM
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No, it's just pointing out the colloquialism.
"IRONMAN" and "IRONMAN 70.3" are the official names, even though "full" and "half" are how they're commonly referenced.
"so-called" isn't diminutive or derogatory