jg4242 wrote:The new guy is Chris, and the canned music is his affectation.
Not quite. I meant that he prefers the canned music because it lends a "professional" atmosphere to the game. Which is an attitude/mode or behavior most unnatural to us, given that we are a college athletic program with a damn fine pep band. Perhaps this definition would be more appropriate for my usage:PresBG wrote:af·fec·ta·tion (noun) - the act of taking on or displaying an attitude or mode of behavior not natural to oneself or not genuinely felt.
Source: Merriam-Webster.com
So what you're saying is that he, too, dislikes canned music as much as I (and many others) do?
–noun
1. an effort to appear to have a quality not really or fully possessed; the pretense of actual possession: an affectation of interest in art; affectation of great wealth.
2. conspicuous artificiality of manner or appearance; effort to attract notice by pretense, assumption, or any assumed peculiarity.
source: dictionary.com
Apologies if I was unclear in my verbiage...
