Originally posted by An Fear Rua:
Use of `XV` on AFR

Originally posted by nlgbbbblth:
I remember my uncle telling me

"Only a b*llocks uses Roman numerals"

Italians presumably excepted.

Originally posted by An Fear Rua:
Using `XV` to describe hurling and gaelic football teams has begun to creep in on AFR. It has been in use on RTÉ Sports web site for some time, possibly by web journalists who are constantly switching from one sport to another.

It`s just as easy to refer to a GAA `team` `side` `lineout` or `panel`. These are all terms that are accepted and have been hallowed by usage in the GAA.

Please leave the use of `XV` to the sheepcoated,brandy-toting rugby alickadoos and the English `public` schoolboys, where the usage   (along with XI  )   for cricket teams originated

Originally posted by SHANNONSIDER**:
Outstanding candidate for the most absurd thread ever started on this forum.

I was blithely unaware of any class distinction in the usage of Roman numerals, indeed I`d be very dubious if one exists except in the minds of exceptionally strange individuals. To me it`s an abbreviation, nothing more, used commonly across the world. I`ll continue to use them where I see fit. I think you should free yourself from the slavery of the post colonial outlook AFR.

Originally posted by Semper Premier:

I have an uncle who`ll go on a rant when he sees Christmas written as Xmas. Something about not giving proper respect to a Christian holiday. People are odd.

Originally posted by SHANNONSIDER**:


I`d say you`re in big trouble with your Latin name, Semper.

Editors note: All references to the 2009 Superbowl will henceforth be spelled out phonetically as `Superbowl Ex Ell Aye Aye Aye`.

Originally posted by OneLeggedDancer:
Should that be boll ix?

Originally posted by Semper Premier:


would it be a banning offence?

Originally posted by SHANNONSIDER**:
Outstanding candidate for the most absurd thread ever started on this forum.

I was blithely unaware of any class distinction in the usage of Roman numerals, indeed I`d be very dubious if one exists except in the minds of exceptionally strange individuals. To me it`s an abbreviation, nothing more, used commonly across the world. I`ll continue to use them where I see fit. I think you should free yourself from the slavery of the post colonial outlook AFR.

Originally posted by Seamusin:
Anyway, we can also thank English public schoolboys for the codification of sports, which led indirectly to football and hurling as we know them.

Originally posted by SHANNONSIDER**:
The GAA are at it now, the English lackeys...

http://www.gaa.ie/plugins/newsfeed.cgi?rm=content&plugin_data_id=24374

Originally posted by An Fear Rua:
Anyone remember when the `public` school boys at Auntie Beeb used to put things like `Copyright, BBC, MDXCCLLIV` at the end of their TV programmes?

Originally posted by An Fear Rua:
Anyone remember when the `public` school boys at Auntie Beeb used to put things like `Copyright, BBC, MDXCCLLIV` at the end of their TV programmes?

Originally posted by An Fear Rua:
Using `XV` to describe hurling and gaelic football teams has begun to creep in on AFR. It has been in use on RTÉ Sports web site for some time, possibly by web journalists who are constantly switching from one sport to another.

It`s just as easy to refer to a GAA `team` `side` `lineout` or `panel`. These are all terms that are accepted and have been hallowed by usage in the GAA.

Please leave the use of `XV` to the sheepcoated,brandy-toting rugby alickadoos and the English `public` schoolboys, where the usage  (along with XI  )  for cricket teams originated

Originally posted by An Fear Rua:
GAA teams should be referred to as `teams`, `fifteens`

Originally posted by SHANNONSIDER**:


But according to who AFR? Where is this GAA version of the Harvard Referencing System stored so we can all study it, lest similar etiquette mistakes be made.

It`s a very peculiar sort of Kulturkampf you`re pursuing.