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Post by vup on May 13, 2018 23:37:59 GMT -5
I'm not very good at it yet, but I know the pronouns, "shi", how to ask questions, and some other basic vocabulary. 日本語を話せますか? Wo bu shuo riyu.
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Post by ironhammer on May 13, 2018 23:41:23 GMT -5
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Post by vup on May 13, 2018 23:46:46 GMT -5
Wo bu shuo riyu. (I don't speak Japanese) And that is...? Wo bu shuo riyu. I don't speak Japanese.
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Post by ironhammer on May 13, 2018 23:50:32 GMT -5
Wo bu shuo riyu. I don't speak Japanese. 일본 말 할 줄 아세요
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Post by vup on May 13, 2018 23:53:37 GMT -5
Wo bu shuo riyu. I don't speak Japanese. 일본 말 할 줄 아세요 xie xie ni
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Post by ironhammer on May 14, 2018 0:47:07 GMT -5
일본 말 할 줄 아세요 xie xie ni Is that supposed to be...never mind. I'll grab a translation dictionary.
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Post by Reach on May 14, 2018 0:56:07 GMT -5
Thank you
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Post by StanfordFan on May 14, 2018 2:37:24 GMT -5
Vup, reorder it a bit. Ni de muyu shi zhongwen ma? 你的母语是中文吗?Or 中文是你的母语吗? What about my screen name? The fact it was named after a former USA coach? Ni shi muyu zhongwen, ma?
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Post by maplespear on May 14, 2018 5:36:47 GMT -5
Nobody cares about ranking. We only care about being in the best position to win gold in Tokyo and then doing exactly that. Even if the team was ranked #1, the same criticisms would exist because the sense would be the ranking is fool's gold. The analogy would be those grand slam tourneys in women's tennis where Serena had been injured and dropped in the rankings, and some other players were ranked ahead of her. Everyone knew she was the true favorite to win the title despite not being ranked #1, #2, etc. Right now, the USNT is one of those other players who happens to be ranked high but most would argue isn't a favorite to win the title. It's a funny thing. I bet some here would still complain about the coach even if we won gold (or not give him any credit for it), so stuck in the ways are certain people here. Speaking of the gold drought, it is...food for thought. How many years have the NT program existed? Older I bet than some people on here, yet for all those years...no, decades, how many Olympic Gold medals have we won? A bit fat zero. That suggest to me it is heck more to do than just a particular coach... It's not a funny thing, it's terrible thing. And it's everywhere not just VT. The Olympic gold drought, I think about it often and have absolutely no answer as to why we have not achieved. Is it the coach, players, environment, attitude, all the above, parts of the above? What's it going to take? These current players IMO are going for another try in 2020 and would say it's our most experienced team we have had in a decade.
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Post by ironhammer on May 14, 2018 7:19:25 GMT -5
Vup, reorder it a bit. Ni de muyu shi zhongwen ma? 你的母语是中文吗?Or 中文是你的母语吗? Ni shi muyu zhongwen, ma? And what does that mean exactly?
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Post by SportyBucky on May 14, 2018 8:33:22 GMT -5
He will have to do way, way, way more than that for what he did to Logan. Let's stop beating around the bush, shall we? For you Karch haters, it doesn't matter if Hooker, Fawcett or Logan is back on the roster, you will still find another excuse to hate on him. You just want him out as NT coach, and nothing else will get that chip off your shoulder. But pity, Karch ain't going anywhere, no matter how many times you say it. He's still there. That must drive you lot insane... You do realize it's not personal, right? People don't like Karch because of coaching decisions. Getting the gold would put all this to rest. Should fans expect less and just enjoy the ride with Karch? Asking for a few friends.
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Post by ironhammer on May 14, 2018 9:09:34 GMT -5
Let's stop beating around the bush, shall we? For you Karch haters, it doesn't matter if Hooker, Fawcett or Logan is back on the roster, you will still find another excuse to hate on him. You just want him out as NT coach, and nothing else will get that chip off your shoulder. But pity, Karch ain't going anywhere, no matter how many times you say it. He's still there. That must drive you lot insane... You do realize it's not personal, right? People don't like Karch because of coaching decisions. Getting the gold would put all this to rest. Should fans expect less and just enjoy the ride with Karch? Asking for a few friends. You do realize I never said it was personal, right? Don't like his coaching decisions? Sure, some of you lot seem to go beyond that...
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Post by SportyBucky on May 14, 2018 9:16:00 GMT -5
You do realize it's not personal, right? People don't like Karch because of coaching decisions. Getting the gold would put all this to rest. Should fans expect less and just enjoy the ride with Karch? Asking for a few friends. You do realize I never said it was personal, right? Don't like his coaching decisions? Sure, some of you lot seem to go beyond that... Your implication is regardless of personnel, decisions, etc...people will still hate Karch. That sure makes it sound as if you believe it's personal. It honestly isn't as much an implication as a suggestion.
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Post by donut on May 14, 2018 9:22:17 GMT -5
Iron hammer you seem to be suggesting that criticism of karch is really a call for his dismissal in the middle of the quad and I can't see that anybody is really making that call. It seems to me the only thing that could snag Karch before the end of the quad is whether he got caught in some #meto problem or if some national columnist grabbed a hold of the Hooker thing and tried to label him as a racist. I think the real concern is that the USA isn't going to be that successful in this quad and that the pipeline for the next quad is going to be empty and somehow karch might get signed up for another 4 years. Karch has the three quadrennial tournaments yet to be completed and they should go a long way towards the final evaluation of his success as a coach in his two quads and whether he should be signed to another four-year contract. Ok fair enough. Karch may have to go if US does not, at the very least, improve on the bronze medal from Rio. Now the bigger question is WHY is the pipeline empty... The overall pipeline isn't empty - look at the NCAA. If the 2020+ pipeline for the NT is empty (which is many people's argument) that is the NT's fault. There is a shut-off valve before the NT for NCAA players who don't fit the system. Pre-2012, the best NCAA players were making the NT. Since then, I don't think that is true. The fact we are bringing veterans, who won't and shouldn't be making the Tokyo roster, over younger players is a poor investment decision.
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Post by staticb on May 14, 2018 11:08:49 GMT -5
We have more young girls playing volleyball than ever before. We should be stacked...
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