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I can't see why this was downvoted. I felt exactly the same.
by _pferreir_ 12y ago
I can't see why this was downvoted. I felt exactly the same.
- bmm6o 12y agoComplaining that it refers to the "wrong" football adds nothing to the discussion.
- anigbrowl 12y agoThere was a whole other paragraph that did.
- mikeash 12y agoIsn't that talking about the other football?
- bmm6o 12y agoI agree, that part of the post at least seemed on-topic. I guess it was collateral damage, maybe there's a lesson to be learned. (Note, I didn't up- or down-vote)
- thanatropism 12y ago(There was an opening joke, and an open-ended technical question. But 'murricans sure be touchy with anything that looks like critique of 'murrican exceptionalism, even in sports.)
- mwfunk 12y agoAs someone else pointed out, there is no one sport that has a monopoly on the term "football". Also, complaining about Americans who refer to American football as "football" often sounds like thinly veiled xenophobia disguised as pedantry, a la "here's one more thing I hate about those stupid Americans..." It's such an odd thing to complain about that it comes across as the tip of a hate iceberg rather than an actual complaint about terminology.
- mikeash 12y agoCan you imagine applying this to other countries? "Oh those stupid Chinese, they call their country 'Zhongguo', but it's clearly 'China.'" Seems that labeling country-specific language variations as "wrong" is acceptable only for the USA.
- mwfunk 12y agoAlternately, it's like if someone were to write a color management API for Python, but used the British spelling for "color", and a few commenters on some tech forum got up in arms about the spelling. Equally abrasive (the commenters, that is) for similar reasons (a faint whiff of xenophobia and/or a sense of cultural entitlement).
- henderson101 12y agos/British/International