[Vocabulary] heat or fever

[Ashiuhto]

Which of the following speech topic is better?


1. What we can learn from the heat of Linsanity

2. What we can learn from the fever of Linsanity

 

[bhaisahab]

Which of the following speech topic is better?


1. What we can learn from the heat of Linsanity

2. What we can learn from the fever of Linsanity

What is "Linsanity"?

 

[Barb_D]

I am guessing it is about the new basketball phenomenon, Jeremy Lin. It's amazing how even non-basketball-followers know his name and his accomplishments. It's a play on "insanity" (people are "crazy" for him) and his name "Lin." I haven't seen it before, though.

Since the author has set up Linsanity as a disease, I'd go with "fever."

 

[bhaisahab]

Thanks Barb, I'd never heard of Jeremy Lin.

 

[Barb_D]

I think people like him so much because he was either ignored or rejected by so many college and professional teams and now is making game-winning plays. They like that "Geez, if things can turn out so well for him after his beginning, who knows how things can turn out for me" feeling. Granted, the guy did get into Harvard on his academic merits, so he's not just a dumb jock, but he's overcome some big odds to enjoy his current success.

 

[5jj]

What's basketball? ;-)

 

[Rover_KE]

I think it's played on a court like this.

Rover:-?

 

[Barb_D]

Oy.
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