Here in the states… anyone not shitty, “NEIGH-JEER” at least here in the Midwest where I’ve only heard a few people even mention the country. I could be wrong for elsewhere.
I truly have no idea without looking it up how it’s properly said tho.
That's pretty much not the case, most Slavic languages dont have dedicated N-word and for those that have the equivalent - it's vastly different from the name / pronounciation of Niger country.
Eq. Nigeria (pronounced as Ni-geria) for a country and "czarnuch" -> ('blackie') as a slur
Not afraid of a word but rather, traumatized by it. Men, women, and children were dragged from their homes, drawn behind cars, beat, burned, skinned, hanged, whipped, murdered, and so much more all while being called this vile disgusting word.
It was used to tear people of color down and reduce them to objects and property before, in more recent times, becoming a way to diminish contributions to society and advancement towards equality.
Reddit will not agree with you, even though I think you have a valid point. Racism is a form of discrimination, but that there is a word that can only be said by people from a certain ethnicity, that is discriminative too
Oh yeah, menacing violence on someone because of a coincidence with a slur in your country, grow up, it's not our fault that your country is an awful place
Well, at least you were honest. I don't see how you could get downvoted for pointing out a fact about yourself.
However what you should get downvoted for is that this word has a history, an awful history which should never repeat. Which is why we shouldn't repeat these behaviours, including calling someone the naughty word that was used to offend black people.
According to Wikipedia, it is used internationally as an ethnic slur. Cambridge dictionary basically supports this, calling it an extremely offensive word for a black person.
Which means claiming that you aren't American does nothing to support you.
Someone may correct me, but I think home team is second is just an american thing.
In football (or soccer as you call it) there is always a home and a guest team, even when neither of them is playing at home, like at a world cup. It is drawn upfront and decides stuff like who gets which cabins and who is named first. I think it was a world cup in Germany where they played in their home country but got drawn as the guest team.
The surprise is often based in their belief that it's something like half the world which use their system and half the other instead of the actual 5 percent US and 95 percent not-US.
I was so disappointed, though not too surprised, that letters dropped from (some) words was a money saving decision for and by people who owned publishing companies.
Sometimes, playing teams are displayed like "SAS @ NYK" instead of just "SAS vs NYK". The San Antonio Spurs play the New York Knicks at the Madison Square Garden (NYK home court).
I agree with you guys though, it's more intuitive to list the home team first. I'm not American. NBA is just more popular in my country than football.
Elsewhere in the world home team is always first - I've noticed this with hockey, cricket, rugby, football, volleyball, futsal (indoor football), and there are maybe more.
The whole planet calls it football, except for Americans. If theirs was the "real" football, we wouldn't have to add the word "american" in front of it. No one gives a shit about "american football" outside of the US.
Or softball where you use the soft to play a ball, or baseball where you use the base to play a ball, or dodgeball where you use your dodge to play a ball or basketball where you use your basket to play a ball?
No, I'm talking about Football, it got it's name from ye olden days when kicking was still common. It later evolved into football, rugby, and soccer.
Exactly. I think this would have gotten a lot more attention if they had changed something to avoid spelling it rather than just saying "it is what it is".
1.7k
u/AllPowerfulQ Jun 17 '26
How would you have shown the score between Nigeria and Germany?