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Comment on !football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot)
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 months 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 4 months ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 months 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 4 months ago
[deleted]AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 months 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 4 months ago
Hey,
Small advice: don’t feed the troll
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 months 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 4 months ago
That person also qualified a 20 years old player as a “child” piefed.zip/post/511068
Yeah, that’s the pro I guess!