I am watching ESPN http://espn.go.com/ today. The Yankees are playing the Orioles in New York City. Because the Red Sox are playing the Blue Jays, who are leading the division, and the Yankees are close behind them, the announcers are giving updates about that game http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/standings/index.jsp. Not just today, but the ESPN announcer has referred to Fenway Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenway_Park, http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/ballpark/index.jsp as "ancient" many times this season.
Well, we all know that Fenway Park is 103 years old. It has been updated over and over again, but the basic structure is old. Is 103 ancient for a building? Maybe for a baseball park it is. In this country, it sort of is, but there are a lot of other buildings that are older, dating back to colonial times, Spanish settlement times, and Native American times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_buildings_in_the_United_States.
I think, if the ESPN announcer wants to comment on Fenway Park's age, there is another term he might use: Venerable. For those of us who like Fenway Park, venerable works better than ancient.
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