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atro_city@fedia.io 6 days ago
Do it, dude. I'd join an instance where USAian talk isn't allowed. Fuck, I'm tired of their constant drama and exaggerations and everything. Orange man this, raspy-voiced poop-brain that, "we baaambed this" and "literally destroyed" that. And it's football FFS, not soccer.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Look into the origin of the term “soccer.” I was curious, so I did. Long story short, it comes from “association football.” I call American football “gridiron football” because, quite ironically, it IS a form of football.
It’s like saying we can’t call refried beans beans because they’re not like black beans (I was just thinking about Mexican food, sorry!). Gridiron football may not be your cup of tea, but it IS football. Association football just deserves the term more. Also, in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, if you just say football, people assume gridiron (and specifically NFL).
I kinda hate that it’s like that, I wish things were more accurately described, but at least we can control how our words are received by knowing what people expect from certain words.