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Belinda E.

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Jul 13, 2005, 1:48:26 PM7/13/05
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At the end of a basketball game, our team has won.

In the stadium immediately after, do I say:

We win! or We won! or We've won!

Same question but it's several hours later at home,

Does it make any difference if the thing won is of much longer
duration, e.g. World War II?

Thank you.


Fred

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Jul 13, 2005, 8:29:18 PM7/13/05
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"Belinda E." <belind...@KillSpam.com> wrote in message
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> At the end of a basketball game, our team has won.
>
> In the stadium immediately after, do I say:
>
> We win! or We won! or We've won!

Either we won, or we've won.


>
> Same question but it's several hours later at home,

We won would be most appropriate.


>
> Does it make any difference if the thing won is of much longer duration,
> e.g. World War II?

No.
>

>


Jim Lawton

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Jul 14, 2005, 2:34:29 AM7/14/05
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:29:18 +1200, "Fred" <no...@parachute.net.uk> wrote:

>
>"Belinda E." <belind...@KillSpam.com> wrote in message
>news:KtcBe.4342$6e3.4...@news20.bellglobal.com...
>> At the end of a basketball game, our team has won.
>>
>> In the stadium immediately after, do I say:
>>
>> We win! or We won! or We've won!
>
>Either we won, or we've won.

Recently "We win!" or "I win!" has become used as a kind of triumphal
exclamation at the moment of ... er ... winning.


>>
>> Same question but it's several hours later at home,
>
>We won would be most appropriate.
>>
>> Does it make any difference if the thing won is of much longer duration,
>> e.g. World War II?
>
>No.
>>
>
>>
>

--
Jim
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reproducing at bacterial levels, almost as an
infectious plague envelops its host"
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FB

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Jul 14, 2005, 6:06:04 AM7/14/05
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:34:29 GMT, Jim Lawton wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:29:18 +1200, "Fred" <no...@parachute.net.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Belinda E." <belind...@KillSpam.com> wrote in message
>>news:KtcBe.4342$6e3.4...@news20.bellglobal.com...
>>> At the end of a basketball game, our team has won.
>>>
>>> In the stadium immediately after, do I say:
>>>
>>> We win! or We won! or We've won!
>>
>>Either we won, or we've won.
>
> Recently "We win!" or "I win!" has become used as a kind of triumphal
> exclamation at the moment of ... er ... winning.

I was about to say that. I remember it, because it wouldn't be possible in
my mother tongue. Has it to do with video-games ("you win", "you lose")?


[...]


Bye, FB
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