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It’s Stanley Cup Finals time, and so I expect we are all asking ourselves the same question: How would you explain ice hockey to Bronze Age nomads from Canaan? Of course there will be a matter of translation. Words like “stick” and “net” presumably would map pretty directly. There’d probably be a word that shares meaning with “team” although maybe it would refer primarily to animals. “Offsides” is tricky to explain even to modern English speakers, but that’s because there are a lot of details; the constituent concepts are straightforward enough. My guess is the main sticking point would be the ice. To people for whom water is precious, it might be inexplicable that we would render so much of it unusable for consumption or irrigation purely for entertainment.
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