Our Commentary on the Commentary!

[Kittentoes]

It’s Lara

Incidentally, I feel much less safe online now than I did when I was 12!

Beautiful name. My favorite spelling.

 

[Kittentoes]

But Colombian people also say coger like we do, i think it's Mexican and central American Spanish that uses it as fuck

Duolingo has not mentioned that at all!

 

[xxParkerxx]

I've heard Charleroi is beautiful this time of year

Not sure where we were. We did take a trip to Brugge (I think I spelled that right) though.

 

[KristyJ]

Did anyone see this in today's NY Times?

Laurie Hernandez is NBC's breakout broadcasting star of the Paris Olympics

With her recent connection to the sport, Laurie Hernandez on gymnastics has been a major plus for NBC's broadcast.

www.nytimes.com

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Some of this is extremely inane, but I will say she reads better in print than she comes across on air.

I wish commentators would take at least a basic judging course. I think that's part of why Justin Spring came across so much better than the others. You don't have to use all of that technical knowledge in every broadcast but it will give the foundation to expand from there.

 

[JDB]

One of the commentators for the English feed didn't know backward illusions exist. She described it as if she saw it for the first time.