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In the November 18th edition of The Korea JoongAng Daily, the expression "undefeated streak" was used to describe the fact that Korea has gone undefeated (with one tie) in the five games since (and including) Turkmenistan in June, when Korea won 5-0.
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 8:33 PM
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I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
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I'm not sure I see the problem. Is it that one of the five games resulted in a tie? A tie isn't a defeat, so while this situation isn't the same as "a five-game winning streak," I think you could probably get away with calling it "an undefeated streak." Am I missing something?
I think that what caused me to stumble was that one of these events was a mere tie. The concept of a "streak" would preclude that, in my thinking. Only wins in a row, ties in a row or losses in a row could count.
Jeffery Hodges
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I agree with Kevin in that an "unbeaten streak" is very different than a "winning streak". Unbeaten can include ties, forfeits, or incomplete/suspended contests. Whereas winning or losing streaks are all about one, and only one, outcome of each contest. If a team has two wins and eight ties in a 10 game season, they can take pride in their "unbeaten streak", but probably are not going to be in any playoffs.
Unknown, my younger son, En-Uk, agrees with you and Kevin and is aggrieved that I could be so stupid as to think otherwise. He's the football expert in the family, so I'm being pressured to fall in line.
Jeffery Hodges
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