I am not a native English speaker, I came to the US when I was 14 (right now I am 38). So, a long time ago, I ran across the word "forfeit", and I assumed it meant the same thing as "losing", and somehow I liked that word, so I used it both when I was winning AND when I was losing to shame my opponent or myself, respectively. But then I finally found out that forfeit doesn't mean the same thing as lost, but rather it means lost in a specific way: namely striked out due to disconnecting or running out of time, or something of that sort. But I found it fascinating to continue to use it as a synonym of losing. While most of the time people simply ignored me, I got a few fascinating responses:
EXAMPLE 1: I was checkmated and I said "I forfeit". My opponent said "actually its a checkmate but good game". I responded to that "well, checkmate is a type of forfeit". I mean you get kicked out of a game for checkmate, don't you?
EXAMPLE 2: I was checkmated, and I said "forfeit" without saying I. And my opponent said "forfeit, why?" But then my computer got frozen so I couldn't explain. I bet they were thinking I told "them" to forfeit since I didn't want to lose; but actually I meant I was the one who was forfeiting, through being checkmated.
EXAMPLE 3: I was checkmated and I said "I forfeit" and my opponent said "too late". I bet they thought that I was wishing to stall until the time runs out to avoid the checkmate or something, and since I haven't done it, I declared it as if I did. But nope, I didn't mean it that way (I am not that type of person to stall whats the point?) Rather I meant that checkmate is the type of forfeit.
And yes when I am winning I do that too. In fact I find it funny to reverse the "you lost" and "you forfeit". In the situations when my opponent was clearly winning, yet I end up winning since they ran out of time, I say "you lost", but in a situation when I checkmate my opponent, I say "you forfeit". I just find it funny that way. There was one time when my opponent had a queen and a rook and I had just a kind and a pawn or something like that, and they ran out of time probably few moves before they would of checkmated me, so I said "you lost" and they actually replied "suuuure I 'lost' ". Also there was one time when I just started playing with someone and they said "hi you lose" at first I was confused, how did they know that I would lose, but then it occurred to me that maybe they knew I was the one telling everyone that they lost so they used it as my nick name, but htey weren't a native speaker so they confused "you lost" with "you lose". I have no idea if thats the case its just my theory.
Anyway, does anyone else find it fun to shame either themselves or others for losing/forfeiting or whatever you want to call it LOL?
I am not a native English speaker, I came to the US when I was 14 (right now I am 38). So, a long time ago, I ran across the word "forfeit", and I assumed it meant the same thing as "losing", and somehow I liked that word, so I used it both when I was winning AND when I was losing to shame my opponent or myself, respectively. But then I finally found out that forfeit doesn't mean the same thing as lost, but rather it means lost in a specific way: namely striked out due to disconnecting or running out of time, or something of that sort. But I found it fascinating to continue to use it as a synonym of losing. While most of the time people simply ignored me, I got a few fascinating responses:
EXAMPLE 1: I was checkmated and I said "I forfeit". My opponent said "actually its a checkmate but good game". I responded to that "well, checkmate is a type of forfeit". I mean you get kicked out of a game for checkmate, don't you?
EXAMPLE 2: I was checkmated, and I said "forfeit" without saying I. And my opponent said "forfeit, why?" But then my computer got frozen so I couldn't explain. I bet they were thinking I told "them" to forfeit since I didn't want to lose; but actually I meant I was the one who was forfeiting, through being checkmated.
EXAMPLE 3: I was checkmated and I said "I forfeit" and my opponent said "too late". I bet they thought that I was wishing to stall until the time runs out to avoid the checkmate or something, and since I haven't done it, I declared it as if I did. But nope, I didn't mean it that way (I am not that type of person to stall whats the point?) Rather I meant that checkmate is the type of forfeit.
And yes when I am winning I do that too. In fact I find it funny to reverse the "you lost" and "you forfeit". In the situations when my opponent was clearly winning, yet I end up winning since they ran out of time, I say "you lost", but in a situation when I checkmate my opponent, I say "you forfeit". I just find it funny that way. There was one time when my opponent had a queen and a rook and I had just a kind and a pawn or something like that, and they ran out of time probably few moves before they would of checkmated me, so I said "you lost" and they actually replied "suuuure I 'lost' ". Also there was one time when I just started playing with someone and they said "hi you lose" at first I was confused, how did they know that I would lose, but then it occurred to me that maybe they knew I was the one telling everyone that they lost so they used it as my nick name, but htey weren't a native speaker so they confused "you lost" with "you lose". I have no idea if thats the case its just my theory.
Anyway, does anyone else find it fun to shame either themselves or others for losing/forfeiting or whatever you want to call it LOL?