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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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    AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    You want to use the word football exclusively to refer to soccer because your goal is to be exclusionary
    
    No, our goal is to use our already understood terms the way we understand them.
    
    You don’t want those stupid Americans to talk about your favorite sport.
    
    They’re welcome to. I don’t watch ANY sports. The closest I get to it is arguing with online trolls.
    
    But I really want to talk about soccer with y’all a lot
    
    Sure, go ahead. Nobody’s stopping you.
    
    rich history and culture associated with the word soccer in favor of the word that British aristocrats used to distinguish themselves from working class soccer fans
    
    Go read the link I posted about the etymology of the word football. Why are you discarding that rich history and culture?
    
    what you’re willing to sacrifice just to keep me out of the conversation.
    
    You have a highly inflated opinion of yourself if you think the English speaking world made language choices with you in mind.
    
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