CombatWombatEsq

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨relationship⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Once you get to an 88 person polycule, I start to wonder about upper limits. Could all of humanity just be one big polycule? That actually might… be awesome?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet rent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
We need UBI for pets
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨!football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Oh, I guess ha ha you really owned me by pretending to care about sports so you can clown on me about etymology or whatever. I’m just super upset that I got to talk about my favorite sport in the context of its entrance into the English language and its place in 19th century British class structure on the internet.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨!football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Right. You want to use the word football exclusively to refer to soccer because your goal is to be exclusionary. You don’t want those stupid Americans to talk about your favorite sport. But I really want to talk about soccer with y’all a lot, and it’s really frustrating that you are willing to discard this 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, and I find it very sad what you’re willing to sacrifice just to keep me out of the conversation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨!football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I have talked about the Sounders when I was supposed to be talking Seahawks and vice versa more times than I can count, so I’m not sure where you’re getting this “it’s not confusing” business from. It’s very confusing and I see it confuse people constantly.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨!football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe in terms of active vocabulary, but in terms of passive vocabulary ~100% of English speakers will recognize the ambiguity
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨!football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
If football refers to a single, specific, concrete sport, why do we use it to refer to Canadian rules football AND Gaelic rules football AND American football AND association football?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨!football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨!football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
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)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I feel like you think that’s some kind of crazy own, but manifestly yes, that is correct. I don’t chat politics much, so that one doesn’t bother me as much, but I do talk a lot of soccer…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨!football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
But you could, and it would certainly be less confusing than insisting on using the overloaded term “football.” Soccer is a grand old European term.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨!football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Great! Let’s just use “football” as an umbrella term for all games played on foot, like soccer, rugby, and gridiron. I’ll call “American football” and you’ll call “European football” soccer and no-one will be confused.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨!football@sopuli.xyz , for football fans (the one where you touch ball wit your foot)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
If you called it soccer instead you wouldn’t have to clarify
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t feel there are too many games, because I can simply buy fewer games, but I do miss the feeling that there are games that everyone is buying and we’re all playing at the same time. I felt like everyone I knew was playing BG3 and we were all talking about it all the time. I don’t want to only play those kinds of big, blockbuster games, but I do want a few of them per year.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between pansexual, bisexual, and omnisexual? How do I know which one I am?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Plus you get to be one of the letters in the acronym! Lots of people disagree on which letters to use, but everyone puts a b for bisexual in there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longest comment chain!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Challenge
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longest comment chain!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
R
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you like/dislike about lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The thing I dislike the most is that my bot got banned. I made a bot to post carefully categorized articles into their proper communities, but it was banned without warning or explanation. All the communities I was modding dried up shortly thereafter because I didn’t manually post in them instead.