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Because the term "football" can have different meanings depending on where you are, but the term "soccer" is unambiguous and known to everybody*, it would make
by sparky_z 5y ago
Because the term "football" can have different meanings depending on where you are, but the term "soccer" is unambiguous and known to everybody*, it would make sense to exclusively use the term "soccer" when writing for an international audience, no?
- DeathArrow 5y agoSome people didn't manage to properly play Rugby so they named it "football".
- ARandomerDude 5y ago> to properly play It's ironic that in a dispute over correct writing, you've split your infinitive. "Properly to play" or "to play properly" are correct English grammar. 'Merica.
- andrewzah 5y agoThat is an archaic, prescriptivist opinion, not an actual grammar rule in English. There are many style guides but those are opinions, not rules.
- parrellel 5y agoJust because a couple hundred years ago, the British had a Latin fetish and tried to shoehorn in new rules doesn't mean anyone should ever follow them.
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- DeathArrow 5y agoI'm sorry. I'm not a native English speaker and probably I watch too many american movies. Or should I say films?
- parrellel 5y agoDon't worry, some stuffed shirts made up the rule wholesale in the 1830s and a particular kind of pedant has been pushing it ever since. It's never been true.
- rsj_hn 5y agoYeah, this is an odd quirk of some British grammars that wanted to imitate Latin. It's not an actual rule, and those grammars have been retired long ago.
- sli 5y agoAdditionally, the term "soccer" was/is Oxford "-er" slang for Association football. The US might use it, but England coined it.
- mbrodersen 5y agoThe majority of the worlds population call what you do in the US “American Football”.