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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Definition of saberist

By Tangotiger, 10:20 AM

Someone wrote me that “saberist” is a word that makes no sense.  The correct form of “ist” is that it’s applied to an object, like violin, or that it’s a concept, like physics.  So, violinist is one who practices violin, and physicist is one who practices physics.

The lovely thing about english is that you can invent words on the fly.  Sabermetrics, for example, is an invented word.  And so, if I have to, I will invent the word “saberism” as a synonym to sabermetrics, so that I can also create the word saberist, a synonym to sabermetrician.

Or, like quatlu, I will just use saberist because it gives me comfort. 

Sorry anonymous reader!  I know it bothers you greatly, but I really prefer saberist to sabermetrician. So, to give you comfort, presume that saberism is now recognized by the masses.

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