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

• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  we use it to refer to Canadian rules football AND Gaelic rules football AND American football

  ‘we’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, considering that’s like 5% of the world population that would refer to it that way.

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  • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ~100% of English speakers will recognize the ambiguity

      Everybody outside of said countries will consider ‘football’ to refer to, well, football, without any ambiguity. They may be aware Americans are idiots about it but it’s not something that comes up in daily conversation.

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      • CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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