game of pong
- noun
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juego de pong
- The best thing ever invented was not the wheel or the printing press, but rather the game of "Pong."
I think this game of Pong would go on quite literally forever.
- I think this game of Pong would go on quite literally forever.
Examples
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I think this game of Pong would go on quite literally forever.
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A classic example of a simple video game is the game of pong, where two players use paddles to hit a ball back and forth.
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When we were bored, we often played a game of pong on the old arcade machine.
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At the reunion, everyone enjoyed taking turns playing the game of pong on the vintage console.
How Simple
Surface Forms
Morphology
The structure 'game of X' is compositionally transparent and normally signals 'a game called X', a predictable pattern learners can apply. However, the lexical item 'pong' here has a non-related literal sense (a sound) and only denotes the classic video game if known as a proper name, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent meanings but not 'Pong' the game may not infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Game of pong comes from an early, very simple video game where two on-screen paddles hit a 'ball' back and forth, like a tiny computer 'ping-pong' match. That picture explains why game of pong now means a simple paddle-and-ball video game.