Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot)

• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Let’s just use “football” as an umbrella term for all games played on foot

  There goes baseball, handball, volleyball, and pretty much every other game involving balls that isn’t played in wheelchairs.

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  • Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hey,

    Small advice: don’t feed the troll

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh well. He didn’t really have a leg to stand on, so I was just taking some cheap shots at the Americans ☺️

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      • Blaze@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That person also qualified a 20 years old player as a “child” piefed.zip/post/511068

        Yeah, that’s the pro I guess!

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  • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I feel like you’re starting to understand why saying soccer should be called football, a term denoting a game played on foot, is needlessly confusing and underspecified, whereas soccer, which is very specific and unambiguous, is the much superior term.

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ‘football’ as a name has been around for centuries with no confusion, until American exceptionalism led to them inventing their own version of the game. The only confusion today is coming from the US. Your proposed change however, is the equivalent of this:

      imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png

      It would not do anything except make the situation even more complicated.

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      • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How certain are you about that? Looks to me like the term football is about 150 years old, and when it was introduced, gridiron and soccer were still the same sport: books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=football&ye…

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