Re:Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)
by sasattack on Monday December 19, 2022 @12:30AM
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And yet you don't know that the term soccer comes from association football and was coined by the English
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I'm aware, I just don't consider it relevant.
Oh you're aware you just are choosing to discard relevant information in order to maintain your high ground ? Oh ok got it. Real rationalist over here
I'm choosing to discard it precisely because it isn't relevant, as I said. When and where a word was coined implies nothing about what languages it is and isn't a part of today.
Re:Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)
by umanwizard on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @06:41AM
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Indeed, but “soccer” is part of American English today. Why should we stop using a word just because people in a different country stopped using it? Is your argument really that we should speak identically to people in England, because the language happens to be called “English” ?