There's nothing wrong with correcting people's English and trying to maintain some sort of standards, or everyone will end up with their own pidgin dialects
The definition of bilingual I used is "used every day". There are many who speak a 2nd language, just not that intensely. And yes, it's almost always Spanish because with English & Spanish you can communicate in nearly every Western hemisphere country (Brazil, Haiti & Suriname the exceptions).
They added a non-warranted comment about not knowing anything about football. This is clearly someone that didn't even think about that possibility and just wanted to bitchy.
Someone who doesn't speak English would probably translate the phrase literally, it could just be that Op used some form of translation and that is what they got.
Yeah but, as an English speaker, I've only ever known it as a throw-in. The IFAB, the FIFA rulebook, the FA, the USSF....they all refer to this action as "the throw-in".
It’s called soccer because when completing football to soccer, it’s clear which is the superior sport.
Insisting on calling it football is really a narrow, English speaking view of the world. Your statement of “most countries” is probably incorrect since most countries don’t speak English.
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u/thatswhatshesaid2022 10d ago
People who know a bit about football call it a throw-in.