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Sports / Fitness / Recreation / sports | | French term or phrase: drapeau or clocher | Hi All,
This is a text about professional and amateur sport and the importance of maintaining uncertainty of results, competitive balance, etc. I don't get what drapeau or clocher might refer to in this context. I thought of flag and bell, but for it to make sense they need to mean the same thing. Context follows:
Le « drapeau » – ou le « clocher », suivant le niveau de la compétition – constitue en effet avec les stars et l’incertitude les trois piliers du spectacle sportif. |
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| | nationalism or parochialism [or regionalism] | Explanation:
The flag represents nationalism and the church bell represents parochialism (or regionalism). It works better in French because the church bell doesn't signify parochialism in English as well as it does in French.
Irish Sport & **Nationalism**
… but the GAA shapes **nationalism** because it is still an Irish sport, it's identifiable in a sort of a global world as something that is peculiarly Irish. It's very important for the **parochialism**, the regionalism that it gives the Irish people.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/sportsfactor/stories/2001/226378.ht...
America, you see, doesn't play international sports. We have our World Series, and sure, it's got some Canadian teams in it, but it's ours. And it's not nations competing against each other, anyway. It's teams, cities or regions. It's regionalism, not nationalism. It's like the UEFA finals. I think. Or something.
http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2006/12/9/13257/3888
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Unlike international cricket or any other game where India's national pride is at stake, an IPL game generates less jingoistic **nationalism**, and more community-like feelings. I asked a Delhi-based friend's driver whom he and his friends supported in IPL.
He said that he supported the Delhi Daredevils and the Kolkata Knight Riders. He was not a Bengali. It turns out that they support teams with good players from the under-19 contingent. So speaketh the true cricket 'affectionado' for whom the sport trumps **parochialism**.
http://sports.in.msn.com/cricket/stories/article.aspx?cp-doc...
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I actually found a dictionary entry to support what I'm saying.
clocher - 2: fig (pays natal) home town; esprit de clocher parochial ou small-town mentality; querelle de clocher local quarrel.
Concise Oxford-Hachette
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You're welcome, Jo, and thank you :-) |
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