As Soon As ...

[bob jenkins]

Just because play happens where A1 touches the ball "as soon as" s/he returns to the court does NOT mean that there is no violation if A1 touches the ball when "as soon as" does not apply.


A1 could violate by touching the ball "as soon as" s/he returns or up to (nearly) 8 minutes after s/he returns.

We need to get back to teaching some basic logic classes in school.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

... up to (nearly) 8 minutes after s/he returns.

Yes, there was some discussion about a "time element".

Noticing some "they"'s instead of "he/she" in IAABO publications this year.

Doesn't sound great but does sound better than "he/she".

Why can't IAABO, or the NFHS, just have some situations about boys games (using he) and some situations about girls games (using she).

IAABO made a big deal about having many new illustrations in this year IAABO Handbook, with different genders, and different ethic hair styles.

Nice change. Took a long time. Does that make IAABO "woke"? If so, I say go for it.

The reinvention of the traditionally plural pronoun may seem sudden, but its second meaning isn’t as modern as you may assume: The word has appeared as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun in English literature for centuries.

The earliest known instance of the singular they can be found in the medieval poem William and the Werewolf from 1375.

They as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun has been employed by some of the greatest writers of the English language for centuries. In 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer used it in The Canterbury Tales. William Shakespeare was a fan of the usage, writing it into several of his plays, including A Comedy of Errors and Hamlet. Two centuries later, Jane Austen used they to describe a single entity in her 1814 novel Mansfield Park.