{"id":1055,"date":"2016-05-09T13:15:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T11:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2016-05-09T13:34:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T11:34:36","slug":"idiom-120-the-metaphorical-ballpark-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-120-the-metaphorical-ballpark-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"idiom 120- the metaphorical &#8222;ballpark&#8220; (PART 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overheard in conversation between a car mechanic and a customer:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Customer:<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>So, how much will it cost to repair the brakes?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Mechanic:<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>I can&#8217;t tell you exactly until after\u00a0a thorough inspection. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>But I could say a<\/em>\u00a0<em><strong>ballpark figure<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(Pi mal Daumen)<em>, maybe $750?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Likewise, the car mechanic could have also said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>But I&#8217;d say somewhere\u00a0<strong>in the ballpark of<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>(grob gesch\u00e4tzt)<em> $750.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f2\/Fieldatthepark.jpg\/640px-Fieldatthepark.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/>This is a baseball stadium, also known as a <em>ballpark<\/em>&#8211; specifically, this is Citizens&#8216; Bank Park, the home of the Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers of American English love to use the &#8222;ballpark&#8220; as a metaphor when talking about estimated, inaccurate amounts. This started roughly in the 1960s when the ballpark was first used by scientists as a metaphor for an acceptable range of data results.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be continuing to explore the use of the baseball park, playing field, and the diamond\u00a0<em>(Raute)<\/em> itself in the next few blog entries as I&#8217;ve just recently realized how many different metaphors American English speakers talk from place where this game is played.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overheard in conversation between a car mechanic and a customer: &nbsp; Customer:\u00a0So, how much will it cost to repair the brakes? &nbsp; Mechanic:\u00a0I can&#8217;t tell you exactly until after\u00a0a thorough inspection. But I could say a\u00a0ballpark figure\u00a0(Pi mal Daumen), maybe $750? Likewise, the car mechanic could have also said: But I&#8217;d say somewhere\u00a0in the ballpark [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1061,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}