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.
Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot)
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoLet’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.
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
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…
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(word)
It’s been around for almost a millennia.
And I’m not proposing a new standard, I’m continuing use of a standard introduced by working class Brits in the early 20th century, so that xkcd really doesn’t apply at all.
It means something specific TODAY. You’re suggesting to have it mean something new and different. It doesn’t matter if that meaning was used a century ago, that’s not what the comic is referencing.
Blaze@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Hey,
Small advice: don’t feed the troll
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 ☺️
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!