BBO Discussion Forums: proper language - BBO Discussion Forums

Jump to content

  • 2 Pages +
  • 1
  • 2
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

proper language

Poll: xxx=? (31 member(s) have cast votes)

xxx=?

  1. trebleton (5 votes [16.13%])

    Percentage of vote: 16.13%

  2. tripleton (26 votes [83.87%])

    Percentage of vote: 83.87%

Vote Guests cannot vote

#1 User is offline   gwnn 

  • Csaba the Hutt
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 13,027
  • Joined: 2006-June-16
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Göttingen, Germany
  • Interests:bye

Posted 2009-July-29, 07:15

If you say 'three small' you are politely asked not to answer.
... and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic.
      George Carlin
0

#2 User is offline   Al_U_Card 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 6,080
  • Joined: 2005-May-16
  • Gender:Male

Posted 2009-July-29, 08:08

porn :)
The Grand Design, reflected in the face of Chaos...it's a fluke!
0

#3 User is offline   Phil 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 10,092
  • Joined: 2008-December-11
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:North Texas, USA
  • Interests:Mountain Biking

Posted 2009-July-29, 09:26

The label on a cartoon whiskey bottle.
Hi y'all!

Winner - BBO Challenge bracket #6 - February, 2017.
0

#4 User is offline   Fluffy 

  • World International Master without a clue
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 17,404
  • Joined: 2003-November-13
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:madrid

Posted 2009-July-29, 11:57

whatever you call it you hsould add at least 3 HCP for having it, it allows you to ruff the 4th round of the suit!
BridgeGod: my personal website with interactive problems and articles
0

#5 User is offline   Al_U_Card 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 6,080
  • Joined: 2005-May-16
  • Gender:Male

Posted 2009-July-29, 11:58

Unless they are "Three baby" trump...lol
The Grand Design, reflected in the face of Chaos...it's a fluke!
0

#6 User is offline   G_R__E_G 

  • PipPipPipPip
  • Group: Full Members
  • Posts: 343
  • Joined: 2005-May-26
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Canada

Posted 2009-July-29, 13:00

The Bridge World recognizes both:

Bridge World Glossary

I think "treble" is more of a British thing. Whenever you see darts from the UK on TV they always say "treble twenty" but here in North America it's always "triple twenty".
Visit my club website www.midlanddbc.com
0

#7 User is offline   crazy4hoop 

  • PipPipPipPip
  • Group: Full Members
  • Posts: 297
  • Joined: 2008-July-17

Posted 2009-July-29, 13:03

3 dead
0

#8 User is offline   Al_U_Card 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 6,080
  • Joined: 2005-May-16
  • Gender:Male

Posted 2009-July-29, 13:31

Or colloquially, "the worst" (as in holding) :)
The Grand Design, reflected in the face of Chaos...it's a fluke!
0

#9 User is offline   Al_U_Card 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 6,080
  • Joined: 2005-May-16
  • Gender:Male

Posted 2009-July-29, 13:59

OR, scientifically, Triplex :)
The Grand Design, reflected in the face of Chaos...it's a fluke!
0

#10 User is offline   nigel_k 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 2,207
  • Joined: 2009-April-26
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Wellington, NZ

Posted 2009-July-29, 14:10

Where I come from, 'treble' means either to multiply by three or a particular kind of bet you can place at the race track. 'Triple' can mean to multiply by three or can be a collection of three similar things.

'Double' is analagous to 'treble', i.e. to multiply by two or a race bet.

'Pair' has the second meaning of 'triple' but not the first.

In Bridge, of course, we do use doubleton instead of pair to mean two. This was originally incorrect but has become accepted through regular usage.

If you want to replace 'double' with a term that means the same but refers to three things, the correct one is probably treble.

If you are looking for the most accurate term to describe a collection of three objects and don't mind whether it is consistent with 'double', I would suggest triple is better.
http://bridgethoughts.blogspot.com
0

#11 User is offline   dicklont 

  • PipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Full Members
  • Posts: 750
  • Joined: 2007-October-18
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Netherlands
  • Interests:Bridge, music, sports

Posted 2009-July-29, 15:41

Al_U_Card, on Jul 29 2009, 09:59 PM, said:

OR, scientifically, Triplex :)

I like that one! Gonna use it.
--
Finding your own mistakes is more productive than looking for partner's. It improves your game and is good for your soul. (Nige1)
0

#12 User is offline   Cascade 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Yellows
  • Posts: 6,761
  • Joined: 2003-July-22
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:New Zealand
  • Interests:Juggling, Unicycling

Posted 2009-July-29, 20:36

trebleton seems more consistent with singleton and doubleton to me.

But the sources that I looked at suggest that tripleton was more official.
Wayne Burrows

I believe that the USA currently hold only the World Championship For People Who Still Bid Like Your Auntie Gladys - dburn
dunno how to play 4 card majors - JLOGIC
True but I know Standard American and what better reason could I have for playing Precision? - Hideous Hog
Bidding is an estimation of probabilities SJ Simon

#13 User is offline   Rain 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 6,592
  • Joined: 2003-February-13
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Singapore

Posted 2009-July-29, 21:55

I call it xxx.

"I hold ATxxx xxx ..., etc"
"More and more these days I find myself pondering how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits."

John Nelson.
0

#14 User is offline   slothy 

  • PipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Full Members
  • Posts: 690
  • Joined: 2003-October-14

Posted 2009-August-01, 06:19

FWIW i call an 'xxxx' holding a 'Castlemain'

only Aussies may get this sigh

Slothy

PS as for calling 'xx' as '2 small': i refuse to use this nomenclature as it brings back painful memories as to why my first girlfriend in 7th grade refused to date me :P
gaudium est miseris socios habuisse penarum - Misery loves company.
0

#15 User is offline   Gerben42 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 5,577
  • Joined: 2005-March-01
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Erlangen, Germany
  • Interests:Astronomy, Mathematics
    Nuclear power

Posted 2009-August-01, 06:41

Google knows:

Tripleton: 112000 hits
Trebleton: 6800 hits, saying "Did you mean: tripleton?"

Also:http://dictionary.infoplease.com/tripleton
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do!
My Bridge Systems Page

BC Kultcamp Rieneck
0

#16 User is offline   Gerben42 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 5,577
  • Joined: 2005-March-01
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Erlangen, Germany
  • Interests:Astronomy, Mathematics
    Nuclear power

Posted 2009-August-01, 06:43

Quote

FWIW i call an 'xxxx' holding a 'Castlemain'


i.e. the lost continent (Pterry)
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do!
My Bridge Systems Page

BC Kultcamp Rieneck
0

#17 User is offline   PassedOut 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 3,664
  • Joined: 2006-February-21
  • Location:Upper Michigan
  • Interests:Music, films, computer programming, politics, bridge

Posted 2009-August-01, 14:06

slothy, on Aug 1 2009, 07:19 AM, said:

PS as for calling 'xx' as '2 small': i refuse to use this nomenclature as it brings back painful memories as to why my first girlfriend in 7th grade refused to date me :D

Gosh, the 7th grade girls in your school were surprisingly worldly!
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists — that is why they invented hell. — Bertrand Russell
0

#18 User is offline   1eyedjack 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 6,575
  • Joined: 2004-March-12
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:UK

Posted 2009-August-02, 00:44

"3 vomit"

By the way, if "trebleton" is the correct extension of "doubleton", what would be the proper name for "xx" in a universe where "xxx" is properly described as "tripleton".
Psych (pron. saik): A gross and deliberate misstatement of honour strength and/or suit length. Expressly permitted under Law 73E but forbidden contrary to that law by Acol club tourneys.

Psyche (pron. sahy-kee): The human soul, spirit or mind (derived, personification thereof, beloved of Eros, Greek myth).
Masterminding (pron. mPosted ImagesPosted ImagetPosted Imager-mPosted ImagendPosted Imageing) tr. v. - Any bid made by bridge player with which partner disagrees.

"Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts." 9th battalion, King's own Yorkshire light infantry,
2000 years earlier: "morituri te salutant"

"I will be with you, whatever". Blair to Bush, precursor to invasion of Iraq
0

#19 User is offline   gordontd 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 4,485
  • Joined: 2009-July-14
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:London

Posted 2009-August-02, 03:29

So we're discussing how best to shorten the two syllables of "three small"?

Perhaps we should also consider shortening "world wide web" to "doubleyou doubleyou doubleyou". :P
Gordon Rainsford
London UK
0

#20 User is offline   Trinidad 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 4,531
  • Joined: 2005-October-09
  • Location:Netherlands

Posted 2009-August-02, 06:46

gordontd, on Aug 2 2009, 04:29 AM, said:

So we're discussing how best to shorten the two syllables of "three small"?

Perhaps we should also consider shortening "world wide web" to "doubleyou doubleyou doubleyou". :unsure:

How about if we make that Redouble U? or XXU? ;)

Rik
I want my opponents to leave my table with a smile on their face and without matchpoints on their score card - in that order.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!), but “That’s funny…” – Isaac Asimov
The only reason God did not put "Thou shalt mind thine own business" in the Ten Commandments was that He thought that it was too obvious to need stating. - Kenberg
0
  • 2 Pages +
  • 1
  • 2
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

1 User(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users