by DannyBoy » Sat Dec 31, 2011 9:33 am
Pitch Hitter, I don't know why it sorts out like this, but the SMBC Forum is on the "unfriendly" side of the spectrum,relative to many other comics forums. So you may be doomed to dissatisfaction if you seek a lot of mutual respect and fairness.
If I may offer a suggestion, with the hope you will not see it as meanness, it was your choice of username that made me nod in agreement with the barb about understanding English. Actually, of course, it's not skills in the language generally that are in question, but only familiarity with the content area that your name is drawn from. Are you aware that the standard term from baseball is "pinch hitter"? That's not to say one can't use variants of fixed expressions, but your particular variant doesn't seem to do anything clever or special with the idea, and may even weaken it into something of a redundancy (in this context, it's always a pitch that gets hit, so a pitch hitter is not different from a hitter [tout court).
Pitch Hitter, I don't know why it sorts out like this, but the SMBC Forum is on the "unfriendly" side of the spectrum,relative to many other comics forums. So you may be doomed to dissatisfaction if you seek a lot of mutual respect and fairness.
If I may offer a suggestion, with the hope you will not see it as meanness, it was your choice of username that made me nod in agreement with the barb about understanding English. Actually, of course, it's not skills in the language generally that are in question, but only familiarity with the content area that your name is drawn from. Are you aware that the standard term from baseball is "pinch hitter"? That's not to say one can't use variants of fixed expressions, but your particular variant doesn't seem to do anything clever or special with the idea, and may even weaken it into something of a redundancy (in this context, it's always a pitch that gets hit, so a pitch hitter is not different from a hitter [i][tout court[/i]).