Did they release the next book yet? Bonus points if Donut finally got killed.
P.s. OP: You really need to make some posts to seed the community. Or if you already have, there’s some federation issues
Edit: I see I’ve pissed off the Princess Posse. Suck it, pussy lovers.
I didn’t claim to like football. I do however actually like etymology.
You want to use the word football exclusively to refer to soccer because your goal is to be exclusionary
No, our goal is to use our already understood terms the way we understand them.
You don’t want those stupid Americans to talk about your favorite sport.
They’re welcome to. I don’t watch ANY sports. The closest I get to it is arguing with online trolls.
But I really want to talk about soccer with y’all a lot
Sure, go ahead. Nobody’s stopping you.
rich history and culture associated with the word soccer in favor of the word that British aristocrats used to distinguish themselves from working class soccer fans
Go read the link I posted about the etymology of the word football. Why are you discarding that rich history and culture?
what you’re willing to sacrifice just to keep me out of the conversation.
You have a highly inflated opinion of yourself if you think the English speaking world made language choices with you in mind.
Oh well. He didn’t really have a leg to stand on, so I was just taking some cheap shots at the Americans ☺️
And hey, it keeps your announcement post up in the active feed!
~100% of English speakers will recognize the ambiguity
Everybody outside of said countries will consider ‘football’ to refer to, well, football, without any ambiguity. They may be aware Americans are idiots about it but it’s not something that comes up in daily conversation.
we use it to refer to Canadian rules football AND Gaelic rules football AND American football
‘we’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, considering that’s like 5% of the world population that would refer to it that way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(word)
It’s been around for almost a millennia.
And I’m not proposing a new standard, I’m continuing use of a standard introduced by working class Brits in the early 20th century, so that xkcd really doesn’t apply at all.
It means something specific TODAY. You’re suggesting to have it mean something new and different. It doesn’t matter if that meaning was used a century ago, that’s not what the comic is referencing.
‘football’ as a name has been around for centuries with no confusion, until American exceptionalism led to them inventing their own version of the game. The only confusion today is coming from the US. Your proposed change however, is the equivalent of this:
It would not do anything except make the situation even more complicated.
Let’s just use “football” as an umbrella term for all games played on foot
There goes baseball, handball, volleyball, and pretty much every other game involving balls that isn’t played in wheelchairs.
Hands, tongue, boobs… Oh wait, wrong balls
Piefed has community migrate and merge tools. I’m not familiar with them, but maybe you can look into whether they let you move your existing subscribers over directly