Ha. I think you’re proving Freud’s point exactly right. If this offends you, I’d invite you to: respond instead of react. No idea why you brought up Trump. Way to paint all 350 million Americans with a broad brush. That is offensive. Take care.
I think you're missing something - the British class system. The key thing is that, yes, the word was created to differentiate football from rugby, but it was created by rugby fans. So, firstly, the word was always associated with people for whom 'football' is a different sport. Secondly, in the UK rugby is associated with upper/middle classes, football with the working class. 100 years ago the media was dominated by upper/middle class people, so naturally they used their term: soccer. But in the last 50/60 years more working class voices have become common in the media, leading to the rise of the use of 'football'
Or could it be that no one likes the Americans using a term that the rest of the world has abandoned? And yes, I'm one of the people commenting that it should be called football!
I hereby declare that Athletics is a horrible name for track and field. One describes the actual sport. The other is generic and describes nothing, it could be applied to any sport. You can have football, as long as we get to switch it to track and field. Fair trade.
Fair enough. Anyway, justice has been served by Belgium after Trump's unprecedented interference with the sport!
And if you want to know why you get so much more static about football than T+F, just look at the newspaper headlines in the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yzzn9y9p3o It matters to us!
Yes, that's part of the point! It's religion like which is why group psychology matters so much here. It's akin to the Christian faiths, they all share a lot, but overly emphasize the differences to set themselves apart.
It should be handyball in the US and kickyball everywhere else.
I approve.
As studied an attempt in casual offensiveness as Trump’s deliberate misunderstanding of red cards. Sadly, time to unsubscribe.
Ha. I think you’re proving Freud’s point exactly right. If this offends you, I’d invite you to: respond instead of react. No idea why you brought up Trump. Way to paint all 350 million Americans with a broad brush. That is offensive. Take care.
He took his soccer ball and went home.
I think you're missing something - the British class system. The key thing is that, yes, the word was created to differentiate football from rugby, but it was created by rugby fans. So, firstly, the word was always associated with people for whom 'football' is a different sport. Secondly, in the UK rugby is associated with upper/middle classes, football with the working class. 100 years ago the media was dominated by upper/middle class people, so naturally they used their term: soccer. But in the last 50/60 years more working class voices have become common in the media, leading to the rise of the use of 'football'
Maybe. But that’s not what the linguistic research points to. Maybe they missed something
Or could it be that no one likes the Americans using a term that the rest of the world has abandoned? And yes, I'm one of the people commenting that it should be called football!
I hereby declare that Athletics is a horrible name for track and field. One describes the actual sport. The other is generic and describes nothing, it could be applied to any sport. You can have football, as long as we get to switch it to track and field. Fair trade.
Fair enough. Anyway, justice has been served by Belgium after Trump's unprecedented interference with the sport!
And if you want to know why you get so much more static about football than T+F, just look at the newspaper headlines in the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yzzn9y9p3o It matters to us!
Yes, that's part of the point! It's religion like which is why group psychology matters so much here. It's akin to the Christian faiths, they all share a lot, but overly emphasize the differences to set themselves apart.
Good point.