they actually don't even use the same court. if you go to a proper racquet club, they'll have distinct courts for squash and racquetball. different dimensions, features, and even slightly different surfaces.
Squash has a metal bottom that juts out in the front where you cant hit the ball and weird shaped walls. Raquetball is basically just a rectangle box, where you have to hit it close to the bottom.
Right, I used to play in racquetball tournaments (was an "A" player). I have seen squash played on the same courts as racquetball here in the States, I seem to recall they used different markings on the floor, though not entirely sure about that.
I thought the pavement and sidewalk bit was funny, I chuckled. Then afterwords nothing else was funny. I just figured I didn’t understand British humor
All of his examples are pretty trash. Like this guy forgot that horses used to often come with carts, carriages, etc. so there is a purpose in specifying “horseback”
And pavement is a general term. A driveway can be considered pavement, the street can be considered pavement. A sidewalk is a specific type of pavement. I assume we use it more generally because we are a more car-based society.
No one anywhere in the UK has ever referred to their drive as a pavement. Pavement is exclusively the area next to the road that pedestrians walk on. No one here gets confused by the fact that other areas can be paved without specifically being pavement.
Right, but that's weird to refer to only one of paved surface as pavement. Language are full of oddities like that. But clearly that's the less sensible way of labeling things.
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u/ohnothem00ps 13h ago
I mean, I get the overall sentiment, but squash and racquetball are two different sports