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sparky_z on Dec 12, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Irregular Verbs (2000)

It's not referring to air travel. It's a baseball term (which I only know because he mentioned it earlier in the essay).

"In baseball, one says that a slugger has flied out; no mere mortal has ever "flown out" to center field."

bhrgunatha on Dec 12, 2014 [–]

It seems I skimmed the whole thing a bit too quickly. I didn't realise it was a baseball term. It sounds so wrong to me.

ezequiel-garzon on Dec 12, 2014 | [–]

Same here, but as a non-native speaker fairly common expressions (in the US) such as "I should've went" and "I should've came" sound way worse!

toothbrush on Dec 12, 2014 | | [–]

Those sound awful by any account.

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