Kind of an English matter. What do u think?

[Brer Rabbit]

Recently I have heard many normal everyday fans, athletes and personalities using the phrase "I'm proud of the team, or I'm proud of him (referring to an athlete) and it seems to bother me a bit so I am taking the question to the Buick community. For example, I heard a self proclaimed White Sox fan state on the radio that he was proud of the team for a late inning comeback recently. So I ask everyone, can he be proud of the teams comeback? Or is that a wrong use of the word. If I teach my 8 year old to hit a baseball and he hits a homerun in the game, I feel I can be proud of him, because of the personal relationship I have, but the fan on the radio never gave any hitting instruction to Joe Crede or Jermaine Dye, so how can he be proud? A friend of mine looked up the definition in the dictionary for the word "proud" but it just doesn't seem to help when the word is used this way. So what do u think?

 

[jpratt]

I think this land has become the land of slang. You are supposed to 'know what I mean not what I say'. The majority of the people I talk to daily do not use proper english, hell I dont either. Guess that is the way it is.

 

[salvageV6]

You can be proud of any other persons accomplishments.

Under the "much pleased" or "self-contented" definition of the word.

It's not really slang and not worth bothering much about.