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And yet you don't know that the term soccer comes from association football and was coined by the English
by sasattack 4y ago
And yet you don't know that the term soccer comes from association football and was coined by the English
- lmm 4y agoI'm aware, I just don't consider it relevant.
- sasattack 4y ago
- lmm 4y agoI'm choosing to discard it precisely because it isn't relevant, as I said. When and where a word was coined implies nothing about what languages it is and isn't a part of today.
- School-Cotton 4y agoIndeed, but “soccer” is part of American English today. Why should we stop using a word just because people in a different country stopped using it? Is your argument really that we should speak identically to people in England, because the language happens to be called “English” ?
- lmm 4y agoI think you should either conform to English English, or treat American as a first-class language of its own (and e.g. start offering translated websites).