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Re:Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014) by sasattack on Monday December 19, 2022 @12:30AM (#34048846)
And yet you don't know that the term soccer comes from association football and was coined by the English
Re:Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014) by lmm on Monday December 19, 2022 @01:17AM (#34049089)
I'm aware, I just don't consider it relevant.
Re:Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014) by sasattack on Monday December 19, 2022 @11:52AM (#34054318)
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
Re:Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014) by lmm on Monday December 19, 2022 @05:08PM (#34058431)
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 (#34064554)
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” ?
Re:Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014) by lmm on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @01:04AM (#34077250)
I think you should either conform to English English, or treat American as a first-class language of its own (and e.g. start offering translated websites).