>England creates the word soccer, short for association as in association football
>gets mad when people say soccer
why is this?
>>68854630
>Ball-coise
Ok that's how I'm calling divegrass from now on
>>68854630
England knew the word was so shitty, they abandoned it, just like many other English inventions.
Of course, that leaves Americans with the perfect trolling word.
>>68854630
There are 2 reasons:
1. Back in the 1980s, some Brits mistakenly thought that "soccer" was an American word, and rejected it for that reason. Many Brits still think that we came up with it.
2. The people who came up with the word "soccer" were students at Oxford in the late 19th/early 20th century, upper-class types. Most Brits hate those kind of people, so naturally they hate the word as well.
>>68854630
cause they are retarded
>>68854630
>Bola Sepak
much better than "divegrass" we should change it to that
>>68854630
>Norway: Fotball
>Sweden: Fotboll
>Finland: JALKAPALLO
>>68854874
Finland has a meme language like Hungary
>>68854630
Football was always a working class sport, and the british working class has always called it Football
>>68854902
>go to Hungary last summer
>it's like you went to another planet
But it is nice to have that one special neighbour.
>>68854972
>>68854972
So, Americans are now upper class for using the word Soccer. OK,got it.
>>68854902
>>68854995
pretty sure finnish and hungarian are related in some way. unless i got memed by /int/
>>68855042
>finnish and hungarian are related
they're language are pretty similar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages
>>68854630
>Italy, one of the giants of the sport, don't use either Football or Soccer
??
>>68854630
>Calcio
>>68855042
Finns are tundra asians, Magyars are steppe asians. They speak Fingolian and Hungolian.
>>68855084
it's all Uncle Benito fault
He started an "italianization" of all foreign words, so football became Calcio (literally "kick")
>>68855084
>>68855099
Calcio means "kick"
who cares lol
>>68855150
>>68855130
Isn't that the name of some ancient murderball game you played in the middle ages?
>>68855177
Yup, that's Calcio Fiorentino. Murderball at its finest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcio_Fiorentino
>>68854972
>Football was always a working class sport
In Britain you mean?
Because here it was an upper class sport until mid 30s.
>>68855238
>The modern version of calcio allows tactics such as head-butting, punching, elbowing, and choking
>>68855313
It's all good as long as there is no kick in the head and it's one on one, so that's pretty based.
Just imagine some choking the fuck out of Ronaldo.
>Nogometna instead of Fudbal
>>68854630
>Mell-droad
Now that's some special snowflake tier.
>>68854630
desu Soccer is better but its too late for that. o.g. 'Football' has many variations including:
Soccer
Rugby
Gailic Football
Aussie Rules
Gridiron (American) Football
Handball
>>68855586
>Nogo
>Comes from "noga", meaning foot
>Met
>comes from "nadmetanje", meaning contest
It's a foot contest
>>68855662
my favourite variation is Old School Village Football. Where theres no rules as to tackles or team size, game starts between two villages the teams have to get the ball to the opposing village to win usually 5 or so miles
> USA plagiarize baseball from crickett
> USA plagiarize american football from rugby
Just shut the fuck and enjoy your easier versions of said sports
>>68855662
>Football has many variations
>Handball
?????
>>68855907
Come from the same Medieval football sports I think
>FooBball
why do the germans use 2 b's?
>>68855907
>>68855953
I think murder-rugby would be a better name for this proto-futbol.
>>68855975
ßecause we can.
>>68855071
>they're language are pretty similar
Not entirely. We are part of the same language family. Like for example Hindu and English are.
>>68855790
>USA plagiarize baseball from cricket
*rounders
>>68855975
>le americanz is dumb meme! XD
NICE ONE
>>68854630
based south africa
>>68854630
>nogomet
>>68855719
i always thought that it comes from meta (target)
>>68856000
but those are very extreme differences in the same language family. Its probably more like English to German, right?
>>68855130
Based
>>68855586
>futebol instead of pebola
>>68856171
No. More like english to Greek. Except with far less vocabulary in common.
>>68855112
>>68856171
>>68856367
Also, to continue:
The Finno-Ugric languages are believed to have their common origin (that is, the earliest single language from which all subsequent F/U languages, but no non-F/U languages, are descended) located in the Mid-Volga region. The Indo-European languages are instead thought to originate all the way over in... the lower-Volga.
>>68856171
Not really. The languages diverged thousands of years ago, so they only have a couple hundred words in common ( kéz - käsi - hand ). There are far more modern foreign loanwords that they share.
The main similarities are that they both have over a dozen cases, a shitload of suffixes, and strictly no grammatical gender (he and she are the same word).
hupikék törpikék
>>68856652
Don't do that
>>68854630
>Ireland
>soccer
You mick bastards are a fucking disgrace.
>Austrialia
>New Zealand
I thought you fuckers were cool.
>>68856268
>pebola instead of bolapé
>>68856802
lol is that a real word?
cuz we also like to swap syllables like that
>>68856918
spanish too: "balompie"
>>68857062
I thought it was a joke
Literal translation of football
"Balon-Pie"
>>68856802
In early 20th Century, some nationalists did campaign to sport to be known as Ludopédio in Brazil.
Ludo - from latin word "Ludus"
Pédio - from latin word "Pedis"
>>68857589
Addendum:
Ludus - Game
Pedis - Foot
>>68854815
You mean Sepak Bola, Nyoman.
How is football in maori?
>>68855151
Indeed, who does care?
>>68856744
no they say it like us canada bro
>>68857062
>baloncesto
>>68854630
It's another America obsesses over England thread.
Also only chavs and the underage get mad at the use of the word soccer here.
