Timeline for Is "they aren't playing THAT GOOD BASEBALL" grammatical?
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| Sep 12, 2016 at 14:18 | comment | added | Arch Denton | The announcer cleverly said, "They're not playing that good baseball right now." Which, when the words are in the usual position means, ""They're not playing baseball that good right now." He or she didn't want to come out directly and say they were playing a lousy game. Both versions are grammatically correct. Another interpretation would be that "good baseball" is a thing--an expression. Something all teams want to do is play good baseball, not bad baseball. The announcer puts emphasis on the idea by saying "that." The meal was terrible. What happened to her good cooking? | |
| Sep 9, 2016 at 14:31 | answer | added | Mitch | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 9, 2016 at 13:46 | answer | added | Alan Carmack | timeline score: -1 | |
| Sep 9, 2016 at 9:08 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/774172599756599296 | ||
| S Sep 9, 2016 at 6:12 | history | edited | Helmar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Sep 9, 2016 at 6:12 | history | suggested | BladorthinTheGrey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 9, 2016 at 1:29 | comment | added | David Marlowe | Yes it was, Sumelic! Only here it seems the noun "baseball" is more abstract because it isn't the physical baseball to which the announcer was referring. Maybe I'm just thinking about it too hard. | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 23:53 | comment | added | Hot Licks | The intersection of baseball announcing and "grammatical" is the empty set. (Seriously. Baseball announcer lingo is well known for torturing the language.) | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 23:49 | comment | added | herisson | This reminds me of your previous question: If I can say “not that good a review,” does that mean I can say “not that good reviews”? Was my answer there useful at all? I realize it might not clear up this issue completely, but it seems to be about the same structure. | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 21:57 | comment | added | Drew | The baseball they are playing is not that good. The level/quality/kind of baseball they are playing is not that good. | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 21:38 | answer | added | developerwjk | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 21:32 | answer | added | WS2 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 21:20 | comment | added | David Marlowe | To be clear, it didn't sound like the announcer was using "that" in a way that suggested he was referring to a specific kind of "thing" (not "THAT old time rock n' roll"). He meant "that" in an adverbial way. | |
| Sep 8, 2016 at 21:16 | history | asked | David Marlowe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |