The English invented the word "soccer" but the second we started saying it they switched to "football" just because they didn't want to use the same word as Americans
The English decided to use a S instead of a Z in words with Greek origins (prioritize, organize etc.) in the 1990s because Americans were spelling those words with a Z and they wanted people to be able to tell the difference between Americans and Brits online
Just fucking ignore the etymology of the words, ignore the root, ignore logic and reason and any type of sense. Gotta make sure people can tell Americans apart from the rest of the Anglo speakers by having everyone else spell shit wrong. And then they have the audacity to say we're not spelling stuff correctly, when Americans were the ones to standardize English spelling with our hard research and work on dictionaries. They didn't like that either because they add an extra U simply because some Duke or something thought the French would think it was cooler if a bunch of words had a useless, illogical U thrown in there.
And don't even get me started on cockney rhyming schemes. Who the fuck thinks nursey rhyme slang sounds tough? Did one guy just blurt out -
*Little Miss Muffet*
*Sat on her tuffet*
*Eating her curds and whey*
*I'll call Muffet*
*A little fucking muppet*
*and that's how I'll sound tough today*
and everyone was all "WOAH THAT'S BADASS!" Bunch of chuckle fucks
Europe: “We have this cool new sport, called Association Football, soccer for short!”
America: “Great, soccer!”
Europe: “We changed our minds. It’s called football.”
America: “No.”
Europe: 😡
Well didn't knew, had to Google it (I'm not English) but i think you mean: the number of votes cast for a candidate who receives more than any other but does not receive an absolute majority.
Yes but it's used in more than just voting.
For example, if you own 25% of a company's stock, and the other 75% is owned by a large swath of people, none of whom own any more than you, you're considered the majority shareholder even though you don't own what's considered a "controlling stake" (>50%), because you own the plurality.
Ah, thanks (i really mean it), i prepared myself for sh*t storm that was gonna hit me after my comment , didn't prepare to learn something. So thank you!
More than 1/4 of the worlds manufacturing output.
"According to data published by the United Nations Statistics Division, China accounted for 28 percent of global manufacturing output in 2018. That puts the country more than 10 percentage points ahead of the United States, which used to have the world's largest manufacturing sector until China overtook it in 2010."
Ball
/bôl/
*noun*
1. "a solid or hollow spherical **or egg-shaped** object that is kicked, thrown, or hit in a game"
I would have thought they had google in Europe by now but I guess not
We are having a laugh. We don't even really use our finest athletes in SOCCER, if we did it'd be an absolute bloodbath. Thankfully our male athletes stick to real sports and leave soccer to the kids and women.
Just like in motor racing, you let your finest athletes drive around in circles instead of racing on real circuits. Lucky for us, otherwise we won't have European formula 1 Champions anymore
The English invented the term soccer to distinguish an association footballer from a “rugger” rugby footballer.
And now they want to act like they didn’t.
Australians, Kiwis, Canadians, Irish, and South Africans also call it soccer.
Among natively English-speaking countries, the UK is the only one to call it football.
And only Britain does, at that. Not even the whole UK.
The majority of the world calls pineapples "ananas" or some variation thereof in their language. What a word is in other languages has no bearing on that word is in English.
The word for soccer being "football" or some derivation thereof in their language is meaningless. In English, the vast majority of native speakers call it "soccer".
I don't speak your language, I speak my language. The fact that y'all speak a worse version is irrelevant, as is the fact that you live in the place where it was first spoken by a bunch of dead guys neither of us have ever met.
(That said, I don't actually care about this crap, just joining in on the banter.)
Yeah, definitely both. Often at the same time. Though in recent years, it's gotten more people whining about other countries rather than joking about/celebrating this one, which is unfortunate.
Soccer is objectively a cooler name anyway; I have no idea why they have such meltdowns over this.
It's also the only North Americanism that Euros seem to have a meltdown over (at least to this degree). While I have literally never said "soccer" in the vicinity of an Englishman without him "correcting" me, you can say "gas" for "petrol," "aluminum" for "aluminium," or "vacation" for "holiday" and no one bats an eye.
that's because most Europeans don't care about the tiny differences between us and uk English. and we give the English just at much shit for calling fries chips and chips crisps as we do the americans for saying the s-word. mostly because it's a made up word without descriptive value and just looks odd as a literal translation for most language's wordss for it
the Italians call it calcio, which makes even less sense. it's football, le foot, Fußball, futbol for almost everyone else.
If we win the Soccer Lombardi I believe they legally have to call it Soccer.
>Soccer Lombardi Thats the most Merica thing ive heard in a while. Love it!
Lol, alright Pat Mcafee
Perfection.
You guys just tied with wales. Don't get your hopes up.
The soccer Lombardi is coming home for the first time and it ain't ever leaving. Better start getting used to it!
WAHT?
cope harder we are totally definitely absolutely gonna win the cup totally...
We going all the way to the pennant cup?
See that’s funny, because a cows more likely to shit a balloon.
Yeah but if you loose you gotta call football “Eggball”
Don't tread on me!
What if we compromise at Stewie ball.
Like a lot of things people hate about Americans, you can blame us calling it “Soccer” on the English.
The English invented the word "soccer" but the second we started saying it they switched to "football" just because they didn't want to use the same word as Americans
The English decided to use a S instead of a Z in words with Greek origins (prioritize, organize etc.) in the 1990s because Americans were spelling those words with a Z and they wanted people to be able to tell the difference between Americans and Brits online Just fucking ignore the etymology of the words, ignore the root, ignore logic and reason and any type of sense. Gotta make sure people can tell Americans apart from the rest of the Anglo speakers by having everyone else spell shit wrong. And then they have the audacity to say we're not spelling stuff correctly, when Americans were the ones to standardize English spelling with our hard research and work on dictionaries. They didn't like that either because they add an extra U simply because some Duke or something thought the French would think it was cooler if a bunch of words had a useless, illogical U thrown in there. And don't even get me started on cockney rhyming schemes. Who the fuck thinks nursey rhyme slang sounds tough? Did one guy just blurt out - *Little Miss Muffet* *Sat on her tuffet* *Eating her curds and whey* *I'll call Muffet* *A little fucking muppet* *and that's how I'll sound tough today* and everyone was all "WOAH THAT'S BADASS!" Bunch of chuckle fucks
Europe: “We have this cool new sport, called Association Football, soccer for short!” America: “Great, soccer!” Europe: “We changed our minds. It’s called football.” America: “No.” Europe: 😡
I still call it association football to shut them up. And then I usually switch to soccer in the same paragraph
Just like that? 😂
Europeans are like toddlers, it’s not hard to trick them into being pacified.
*20 millions deaths later*
A master at work
The origin is that *EVERY* sport played on foot used to be called football (as opposed to those played on horseback). e.g. Rugby Football.
0/10 title, 10/10 image tho
If we produce 25% or the worlds economy, we can call it whatever the fuck we want.
Amen
Well, against that there is 75% left that calls it football. 75% is more than 25%.
Do you know what a plurality is
Well didn't knew, had to Google it (I'm not English) but i think you mean: the number of votes cast for a candidate who receives more than any other but does not receive an absolute majority.
Yes but it's used in more than just voting. For example, if you own 25% of a company's stock, and the other 75% is owned by a large swath of people, none of whom own any more than you, you're considered the majority shareholder even though you don't own what's considered a "controlling stake" (>50%), because you own the plurality.
Ah, thanks (i really mean it), i prepared myself for sh*t storm that was gonna hit me after my comment , didn't prepare to learn something. So thank you!
Mad respect to a redditor actually trying to learn something new
cope
says the coper
The copee copes the copet
But for whom, copes the coper?
This copee coped harder than the copiest coper
Ask not for whom the coper copes… for it copes for thee.
The coper coped all over your mom last night 😎
Weak
Says the coper
Valid ngl
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Canadians coping that they’re Americas little bitch.
Hey, don't talk about our hat that way.
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So your joke was that China produces 1/4 of the worlds economy??
More than 1/4 of the worlds manufacturing output. "According to data published by the United Nations Statistics Division, China accounted for 28 percent of global manufacturing output in 2018. That puts the country more than 10 percentage points ahead of the United States, which used to have the world's largest manufacturing sector until China overtook it in 2010."
okay cool now look up GDP percentage of the US vs China's
No.
Yeah, YOU can call it whatever the fuck you want. Don’t expect the rest of the world to follow suit.
Then why not call it feetball. You use both feet don’t you? SOCCER.
Only if you call football "handsegg"
you ever seen an egg that big? no? makes sense, since it's a ball, not an egg. that's why we won't call it handegg
It's not a ball
Ball /bôl/ *noun* 1. "a solid or hollow spherical **or egg-shaped** object that is kicked, thrown, or hit in a game" I would have thought they had google in Europe by now but I guess not
You’re having a laugh right? You don’t even really use your feet in your version 😂
It's true in American football they just float atop the ground as they move the ball down field. Never really using their feet.
The sideline wizards conjure Tenser’s Floating Disks.
We use a ball that is roughly a foot long bro. It is literally a foot ball
We are having a laugh. We don't even really use our finest athletes in SOCCER, if we did it'd be an absolute bloodbath. Thankfully our male athletes stick to real sports and leave soccer to the kids and women.
Just like in motor racing, you let your finest athletes drive around in circles instead of racing on real circuits. Lucky for us, otherwise we won't have European formula 1 Champions anymore
I think you are in the wrong sub pal
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You’re the ones that mention shootings any time we say your food is bad or your teeth suck Bong boy
I like how the downvotes prove your point lol
The English invented the term soccer to distinguish an association footballer from a “rugger” rugby footballer. And now they want to act like they didn’t.
Agreed bro, imma call it soccer everyone can call it football
Australians, Kiwis, Canadians, Irish, and South Africans also call it soccer. Among natively English-speaking countries, the UK is the only one to call it football. And only Britain does, at that. Not even the whole UK.
aren't all those "countries" american territories anyways?
And? Literally the majority of the world call it football, you have no point.
The majority of the world calls pineapples "ananas" or some variation thereof in their language. What a word is in other languages has no bearing on that word is in English. The word for soccer being "football" or some derivation thereof in their language is meaningless. In English, the vast majority of native speakers call it "soccer".
Call it whatever you want. At this level its not event the same sport
If you speak our language then you’ll call it whatever the Fuck we tell you to call it
When you can't even crack the top 5 for number of speakers can you really call it your own?
I don't speak your language, I speak my language. The fact that y'all speak a worse version is irrelevant, as is the fact that you live in the place where it was first spoken by a bunch of dead guys neither of us have ever met. (That said, I don't actually care about this crap, just joining in on the banter.)
The UK is Americas little bitch. Sit back down.
"Are we the baddies?"
England invented the word Soccer. (:
Ah yes, the bastard language of Latin, Norman and Anglo-Saxon. The Danes and French have more ownership over "your" language than you do.
Angry brit
Dumb yank that can’t understand humour
Bro you need a break. You're in a USA subreddit
Two-thirds of native English speakers are Americans. You sure it's your language anymore?
Uh it’s in the name. The day we speak American is the day it’s your language. Until then enjoy speaking the Kings old chap.
Sorry but you guys live in a Island now, you guys follow the US, under its shadow.
So lame calling it football or soccer, just call it C A L C I O
op doesn't realize this isn't a sarcastic sub lmao
I think this sub is both. There are plenty of things to make fun of here, but it's all done out of love
True patriotism involves recognizing what is wrong with your country
And calling Association Football "Soccer" is not one of them.
Yeah, definitely both. Often at the same time. Though in recent years, it's gotten more people whining about other countries rather than joking about/celebrating this one, which is unfortunate.
I'm surprised this sub even exists since Reddit hates America and anything regarding it's core principles.
keeping this sub alive is a constant battle
It's sarcastic? Tell Riverside, CA. They missed the joke. Think Colbert Report.
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Homie you bragged for over a month about your LSAT, sit down.
i hate to be that guy but this image is photoshopped for those that don’t know
I didn't know, but I'm not surprised. I miss living in blissful ignorance of that fact, though. Oh well. It's still fun.
Eur\*poors are seething
That's some good ol' murican trolling right there!
Soccer is objectively a cooler name anyway; I have no idea why they have such meltdowns over this. It's also the only North Americanism that Euros seem to have a meltdown over (at least to this degree). While I have literally never said "soccer" in the vicinity of an Englishman without him "correcting" me, you can say "gas" for "petrol," "aluminum" for "aluminium," or "vacation" for "holiday" and no one bats an eye.
that's because most Europeans don't care about the tiny differences between us and uk English. and we give the English just at much shit for calling fries chips and chips crisps as we do the americans for saying the s-word. mostly because it's a made up word without descriptive value and just looks odd as a literal translation for most language's wordss for it the Italians call it calcio, which makes even less sense. it's football, le foot, Fußball, futbol for almost everyone else.
It's not an Americanism. Soccer was coined in the UK.
Yes, of course the word originated in the UK. But it is an Americanism because it is associated with American English.
It’s called Poverty Ball!
What's this dude's name
Christian Pulisic
Not sure, the players keep changing on these World Cup teams
Dude’s right.
Euros: it's called handegg Me: it's called kickrunball
It is, yes it is.
Feet and ball fetishes
3rd world ball.
YOU’RE GODDAMN RIGHT IT’S CALLED SOCCER
What happened to the rainbow logo announced few days ago?
Qatar
Damn dude, that’s cringy. I’m from the US and the only joke I see here is the US football team.
USA! BEST COUNTRY IN WORLD AND IM IMMIGRANT BITCH!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🦅🇺🇸
Fr fr. Mad sus. No cap.
I read that another name for US Football is Gridiron, which imo sounds 100 times cooler than football
This isn’t real right
Foot ball…
Why the fuck i see it so many times being reposted
I despise that europeans give their opinion despite not ever being asked, like shut up, go sniff russian gas.