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Pavlides Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Karateist?

Hi

If a judo player is called a judoist what is a karate payer and a kendo player called?

And how about this:

I play soccer

I ski

I do judo

I do karate

Do we use do for these?

Thanks

Joe
  

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'Practice', I think, is the best verb: I practice karate. But 'do' will do. I didn't know that 'judoist' was a word, and I don't think it is a very felicitious coinage, but if it is acceptable, then certainly kendoist, kyudoist and karateist are, as odd as they look.

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  • 'Practice', I think, is the best verb: I practice karate.
  • But 'do' will do.
  • I didn't know that 'judoist' was a word, and I don't think it is a very felicitious coinage, but if it is acceptable, then certainly kendoist, kyudoist and karateist are, as odd as they look.
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  • karateka), and that form might have caught on in some dojos.
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'Practice', I think, is the best verb: I practice karate. But 'do' will do.

I didn't know that 'judoist' was a word, and I don't think it is a very felicitious coinage, but if it is acceptable, then certainly kendoist, kyudoist and karateist are, as odd as they look. (In Japanese, the suffix -ka is added (e.g. karateka), and that form might have caught on in some dojos. Again,
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