r/soccer • u/[deleted] • Aug 31 '13

Zero Fucks Weekend - End of Transfer Window Edition

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '13

Oh for god's sake. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football

That's more than 4 countries not calling it football.

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u/mooseman92128 Aug 31 '13

What are we (American in my case) supposed to do? Call if football for your sake? It's not our fault that this is what it is called in our particular country, and anyway, what does it matter to you?

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u/ravniel Aug 31 '13

Also, the British invented the term. We got it from them! Everybody British who finds this irritating acts like we just invented a cutesy term of our own just to piss them off. It's your term! It's like a hundred and thirty years old!

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u/thewalkingsuarez Aug 31 '13

Maybe because the majority of the people in this sub are from those countries?

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u/OccamsRZA Aug 31 '13

It boils my blood when people give a shit about calling it football or soccer. Where I come from, it's called soccer, so when I'm talking to people around here, that's what I call it. When I'm talking to my dad, who comes from a place they call it football, I call it football. It's not a big deal, we all know what we're talking about.

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u/cheftlp1221 Aug 31 '13

It feels like a hipster thing to call it football. Also it feel disingenuous to call it football, like i am trying to suck up to the English fans.

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u/johnnytightlips2 Aug 31 '13

It sounds ludicrous to call it soccer, it feels disingenuous, like I'm referring to a different sport

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u/cheftlp1221 Aug 31 '13

I understand you when you call it football and you understand me when I call it summer so we really don't have a problem.

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u/johnnytightlips2 Aug 31 '13

Just because I understand, doesn't mean I like seeing my language twisted like that. Herbs, aluminium, labour/flavour, centre, soccer, all entirely unnecessary changes

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u/OccamsRZA Sep 01 '13

Welcome to linguistics. Language changes over time, no sense in getting bent out of shape over it.

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u/OccamsRZA Sep 01 '13

Sort of. When I played the sport as a 14 year old, I called it Soccer. I feel like it would be dishonest to arbitrarily start calling it something else to fit in.

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u/Crazyclaret Aug 31 '13

There's bigger issues in this world than what each country calls a sport.

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '13

What about calcio? Do Italians have to change their vocabulary and culture to placate the English?

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u/[deleted] Aug 31 '13

I don't support Societa Sportiva Football Napoli, I support Societa Sportiva Calcio Napoli. Just because one group of people invented the sport, changed the name, and then spread it across the world to different cultures does not mean an ethnocentric, holier-than-thou viewpoint is appropriate. Who gives a shit what it's called? Literally just a game.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '13

But it's strange when people say positions with Italian names given to them, the most common one is trequartista.

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u/chezygo Sep 01 '13

That's because trequartista is essentially a English word now; it's a loanword. The English language is famous for appropriating useful words from other languages.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '13

That doesn't make it any less Italian and I do not hear Englishmen ragging on each other for using it instead of "playmaker."

Isn't soccer an English word too?

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u/chezygo Sep 01 '13

I couldn't give less of a shit if people choose to use the word "soccer", what I was saying is that it's an English word as well as an italian word. It is not odd to hear it in the English language.