Another Rant About Sports Commentators

Okay, sports commentators, i know you think you are cool and impressive and wish to wow the watchers of listeners with your expansive vocabularies (not!). But dammit, here are the definitions of two words you use excessively and inappropriately (out of lord knows how many). Dammit, look it up. The guys you stole it from aren’t the linguistic wizards you think they are, and it ain’t cool to show you can be stupid.

verticality – position at right angles to the horizon. verticalness, erectness, uprightness. spatial relation, position – the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated; “the position of the hands on the clock”; “he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage

physicality: 
 1) fact of relating to the body as opposed to the mind; physical presence.
“there’s an emphasis on the physicality of the actors”
2) involvement of a lot of bodily contact or activity.
“the intense physicality of a dancer’s life”

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