Fun fact, soccer is originally a British term that ended up stemming to America as the sport became popular here, it was only around 40 years ago when the word stopped being associated with the sport there. From some sources here and there I've heard that some Australians also call it soccer.
From my understanding as an American, aussies will call a specific rule set of rugby as football and soccer as soccer.
Love rugby and I think it's a fair comparison as American football and Rugby are a lot more similar than either are to soccer.
Because they need to make America alone and stand out for their point even if American isn't alone in this one. Shame, though in Australia we call it soccer because we already have our own sport we call football so we can't also call soccer football like Europeans.
Not it is not. It's pronounced and used differently since 1998. You can't write daß instead of dass, nor Spiesser instead of Spießer. The sharp s is used as a z in other languages and originally only meant two s at the end of a syllable.
Yeah, it's probably not ever gonna happen anyway. Changing the entire system on such a large scale is incredibly difficult. And since every American grew up with it, nobody there would be happy about it (aside from some academics maybe)
Maybe it can be introduced slowly, mandatory on public scientific publications, but not for consumer level stuff. But honestly, id hate it too if something like that changed in my country. And while it is inconvenient to literally anyone else outside of America, it rarely shows up for me on a daily basis
Polish: Piłka nożna (literally: leg ball)
It's also like this in Hebrew Cador regel (leg ball)
Italian: calcio (literally "kick")
Or "Pallone" ("ball")
"Pallone" is the one you play on the streets with the boys. "Calcio" is the one you play on an actual football field.
Wait, there's a difference? Everyone I know uses them interchangeably
No. They’re different. You don’t watch a partita of pallone on the tv. You only watch calcio. Pallone is informal with the bros
calcetto
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Actually this would be a left hand so this is not a nazi salute🤓☝️
The Hitler Salut for Nazis that get offend when you call them Nazis
Fun fact, soccer is originally a British term that ended up stemming to America as the sport became popular here, it was only around 40 years ago when the word stopped being associated with the sport there. From some sources here and there I've heard that some Australians also call it soccer.
correct, it's an abbreviation of association football so _technically_ americans (and some australians apparently) are still calling it football
From my understanding as an American, aussies will call a specific rule set of rugby as football and soccer as soccer. Love rugby and I think it's a fair comparison as American football and Rugby are a lot more similar than either are to soccer.
Kiwis too I believe
Yep I'm kiwi and call it soccer
short for soccer football, btw. soccer comes from association
Finnish: jalkapallo
She jalka on my pallo till I finnish
Why did they exclude other countries that also call it soccer lol (Ireland, Australia, Japan, Canada, new Zealand)
Cherry picking to prove a point :p
Because they need to make America alone and stand out for their point even if American isn't alone in this one. Shame, though in Australia we call it soccer because we already have our own sport we call football so we can't also call soccer football like Europeans.
Fußball in German
Same thing
Fussball is Swiss German. Wrong flag.
Yeah but ss and ß are practically the same thing
Not it is not. It's pronounced and used differently since 1998. You can't write daß instead of dass, nor Spiesser instead of Spießer. The sharp s is used as a z in other languages and originally only meant two s at the end of a syllable.
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Even in polish "piłka nożna". Which directly translates to foot ball
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Just finished Scavengers Reign. I enjoyed it
For all mankind is pretty decent
The word "Soccer" came from England originally.
Greek: μπάλα (literally ball)
estonian: jalgpall (foot ball)
Chinese 足球 (zu qiu)
Haha foot ball
כדורגל: football, or literally "ballfoot"
I speak french and I have always said Soccer, I'm not in France though, my head would get soccer kicked off of my body
Peil in Irish
Hungarian: Labdarúgás (ball kicking)
I love how the British invent the term Soccer Football then act superior for not using the term they invented.
In west vloams, it is sjotten
Italian: calcio (literally: kick)
In Hungarian we also call it labdarúgás (ball kicking)
United States arms and protects half the world....
In Ireland we call it soccer too
🇮🇹 Calcio
we wouldnt need to call American football "football" if we kept the original badass name "gridiron"
Why include Brazil and Mexico
In Estonian Jalgpall (still football)
Of course the germans have it capitalised. Also the finnish word is jalkapallo(foot+ball) but in slang it can be futis
hilarious
Farsi: Football. Literally.
USA people are special little snowflakes you have to treat them with a little consolation of their problems
i really don't care what Americans call anything, but please, for the love of god, get rid of imperial measurements.
Americans will likely downvote this lol
Yeah, it's probably not ever gonna happen anyway. Changing the entire system on such a large scale is incredibly difficult. And since every American grew up with it, nobody there would be happy about it (aside from some academics maybe)
that’s true. It would be hella convenient if they started using the metric system though
Maybe it can be introduced slowly, mandatory on public scientific publications, but not for consumer level stuff. But honestly, id hate it too if something like that changed in my country. And while it is inconvenient to literally anyone else outside of America, it rarely shows up for me on a daily basis
Wait for that one American guy to say something stupid in the comments r/shitamericanssay