Yogiisms are quotations by Yogi Berra, who, besides being a baseball player, was also famous for fracturing the English language in provocative, interesting ways. Similar phrases, spoken by other people, are also sometimes called "Yogiisms". Many Yogiisms are oxymora. Yogiisms - Examples. It ain't over till it's over. This quotation is undoubtedly the best-known Yogiism. However, what he really said was You're never out of it 'til you're out of it in regard to the 1973 Nati ...

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This quotation is undoubtedly the best-known Yogiism. However, what he really said was You're never out of it 'til you're out of it in regard to the 1973 National League pennant race. I want to thank you for making this day necessary. This was said at Yogi Berra day in St Louis in 1947. It is supposed to be the first Yogiism. By his account, he asked a teammate to write a short speech, and he misspoke, replacing the wo ...

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Paul Dickson says in his introduction to The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary, "The influence of baseball on American English at large is stunning and strong." No other sport has contributed so richly to American English as baseball. Slang terms (as distinct from jargon) have evolved a usage and meaning independent of baseball and are often used by those with little knowledge of the game. Many of these terms are deeply entrenched in the American psyche. The following are common American slang terms, each of ...

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Unintentional humor is the act of making other people laugh without actually trying to. There are several different kinds of unintentional humor that arise out of various situations. Unintentional humor - Unintended contradiction. It is possible for unintentional humor to arise when two different well-meaning people contribute independent pieces of information, but in combination, they contradict each other. The image on the right is an example of this. English ...

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Aflac NYSE: AFL TYO: 8686 is an American insurance company, which was founded by three brothers, John, Paul, and Bill Amos in 1955 in Columbus, Georgia. The company's corporate name was formerly American Family Life Assurance Company, but in 1990 the acronym was formally adopted as the legal name. The official name on the firm's Web site, and for legally selling insurance, is the American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus. Aflac has three realms of operations: New York State, the rest of the United States, and Japan (where they still use the ...

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Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra (born May 12, 1925) is a former catcher and manager in Major League Baseball who played almost his entire career for the New York Yankees. He is one of only four players to be named the Most Valuable Player of the American League three times, and one of only six managers to lead both American and National League teams to the World Series. He currently lives in Montclair, New Jersey. Born in a primarily Italian neighborhood of St. Louis called "The Hill", Berra was the son of immigrants and originally ...

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Semantic pleonasm is more a question of style and usage than grammar. Linguists usually call this redundancy to avoid confusion with syntactic pleonasm, a more important phenomenon for theoretical linguistics. It can take various forms, including: Overlap: One word's semantic component is subsumed by the other: "Receive a free gift with every purchase." "I ate a tuna fish sandwich." Prolixity: A phrase may have words which add nothing, or nothing ...

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There are various common categories of quotes: malapropisms or grammatical errors, exaggerations about past achievements, lack of conviction, consorting with the enemy, moral turpitude, indifference towards victims of crime, etc. In the case of malapropisms, it is a logical fallacy (called argument ad hominem) to conclude that the entire argument of whoever made the utterance is incorrect. Yet it has become common in partisan argument in the United States. For instance: former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, during an interview with Wolf ...

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Following a spell in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he played minor league baseball with the Newark Bears before being called up for 7 games in the major leagues in 1946. The following season he played 86 games for the Yankees, and he would play more than 100 in each of the following 14 years. During his 19-year career as a Yankee, the Bronx Bombers dominated baseball, appearing in 14 World Series and winning ten championships, both of which are records. Berra himself was a 15-time All-Star, and won the league's MVP award in 1951, 1954 and 1955. He caught Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, the o ...

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Often pleonasm is understood to mean an excess word or phrase which is unnecessary, clichéd, or wrong. But a pleonasm can also be simply an unremarkable use of idiom. It can even aid in achieving a particular linguistic effect, be it social, poetic, or literary. In other words, pleonasm sometimes serves the same function as rhetorical repetition — it reinforces a point, and makes the writing clearer and easier to understand. Further, pleonasm can serve as a kind of redundancy check. If a word is unknown, misunderstood, or misheard, ...

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Syntactic pleonasm occurs when the grammar of a language makes certain function words optional. For example, consider the following English sentences: "I know you are coming." "I know that you are coming." In this construction, the conjunction that is optional when joining a sentence to a verb phrase with know. Both sentences are grammatically correct, but the word ...

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Often pleonasm is understood to mean an excess word or phrase which is unnecessary, clichéd, or wrong. But a pleonasm can also be simply an unremarkable use of idiom. It can even aid in achieving a particular linguistic effect, be it social, poetic, or literary. In other words, pleonasm sometimes serves the same function as rhetorical repetition—it reinforces a point, and makes the writing clearer and easier to understand. Further, pleonasm can serve as a kind of redundancy check. If a word is unknown, misunderstood, or misheard, o ...

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In February 2005 Berra filed a lawsuit against Turner Broadcasting System. He alleges that they used his name in a racy advertisement for Sex and the City. The advertisement asks what the definition of a "yogasm" is: a) a type of yo-yo trick, (b) sex with Yogi Berra and c) what Samantha has with a guy from yoga class. The answer given was c). He is requesting $10,000,000 in damages. Berra has previously appeared on advertisements for AFLAC, Entenmann's, and S ...

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Television commercials have taken advantage of Yogi's fame in speaking, and advertisers have scripted some things for him to say that are similar to true Yogiisms. In an Entenmann's commercial, Yogi said, "You can taste how good these cookies are just by eating them" and "this box is always open until it's closed." In a print advertisement for the the Yankees' YES Network, Yogi said, "I love the YES Network so much, I don't watch TV anymore." In an AFLAC commercial, Yogi said, "If you get hurt and miss work, it won't hurt to miss work. And they g ...

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"Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting" "You can observe a lot by watching" "It gets late early around here..." "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore" "If I didn't wake up I'd still be sleeping" "I usually take a two hour nap from 1 to 4" "If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else" "The future ain't what it used to be" "If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you gonna stop them?" "Always go to other people's f ...

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When asked what makes a good manager of a baseball team, he said "A good ball club" When asked what time it is, he said "What? You mean right now?" When he was asked if first baseman Don Mattingly had exceeded expectations, Yogi said "I'd say he's done more than that!" His wife Carmen asked where he would like to be buried, and he said "Surprise me!" He was told that he looked cool in his summer suit by the wife of Mayor of New York, and he ...

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