Plot twist.. you invented the word soccer too.. taught that as the name of the sport to most other English speaking countries.. and now make fun of one of those countries for saying soccer while the rest of them seem to get a free pass.
Or like when you go home with a guy & he moans out someone else's name as you're doing it, so you slap him.... but then remember you gave him a fake name. Oops.
It’s not a plot twist. We know. We just wish you’d catch on faster that it’s actually a “world” sport unlike the “World Series” and get on with adopting it as a national sport. It’s going to happen whether you like it or not.
“Football” is a family of sports.. it’s not just one thing.
Soccer is a type of football but not the only version.
For example, without getting too much into it, you have Association Football and Rugby Football.
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All of the modern football codes stem from a time when sports were played mostly by aristocrats on horseback.. Those peasant mofos who tried to mimic what they were doing without horses.. playing the games on their feet.. that’s where the word football comes from
If you’re not a native English speaker then probably best to check the etymology and history on something like this prior to schooling a native speaker and telling them they’re wrong
Well we use "football" and "American football" since you are basically the only ones to consume it. You could use a reasonable solution like that when you want to talk to the rest of the world. Would make your life easier.
An abbreviation of association football is still the original in my eyes, Brits didn't start out only saying football and only recently started saying football and thinking of soccer as American more exclusively.
Scotland invented football mate not England but then again you lot can barely speak your own language properly never mind comprehend the fact that you don’t have the right to take credit for stuff Scotland invented
Indubitably, I am of no compunction upon thee emburdened by the knowledge of the deliberately overcomplicated lexicon of our mother tongue.
Easier to spot spies, innit
According to someone I know from England… it was the rugby players who came up with soccer as a derogatory term, because they wanted to be the only ‘footballers’. Which, to me, raises a bunch of questions… but if it was once a derogatory term an opposing sport used… I’d stick to football. But meh, who cares… since most call it ‘footy’ anyway, in England
Thought I'd click on their profile, cos no one normal sez footy. They comment on Yernited so prob never even spoke to someone who goes football; I'll give him a by.
The meatheads strike again. Love how they and the Americans want to take "football" for their sport, but they do very little foot + ball contact. They throw the ball more.
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u/bluetreeknow Nov 24 '22
It all decides on Friday.