Re: Open questions

Thom Madura wrote:
Ron Hunter wrote:
Thom Madura wrote:
R.C. Payne wrote:
Thom Madura wrote:
Drusilla wrote:
Phil escribió:

REAL "football" what you call soccer, is played everywhere else but....
Classic case of the single soldier out of step marching with the other 10,000 insisting everyone else is out of step.....

Whenever someone calls football "soccer", a friend of mine dies a little bit and rants a lot... (I don't like it either. btw)

(Speaking of it, my National Team is playing against Brazil... 0-1 so far :( )


I can understand that completely - Football isn't Soccer.

There is a whole family of games that evolved in the 19th and 20th centuries out of the fairly nebulous game of "football", and each of them, to a greater or lesser degree, is called football. In much of the world "association football", which is also called soccer (most commonly in North America) is known simply as football. In the US, the game that in the UK is called "American football", which evolved out of the Rugby style of football is often called "football" without qualification. This diversification is parodied in Quiddich Through the Ages with the game of Quadpot. As George Bernard Shaw once said, the Americans and British are "two peoples separated by a common langauge."

Robin


Shaw was wrong - we are not separated by a common language. Our Languages have similar roots - but separated 300 years ago. After 300 years of non-synchronous development - they really should be considered separate.

Separated indicates no interaction, and no contact (or very little). This has NEVER been the case. In fact, there is probably more traffic across the border between the US and Canada than between most other countries, and yet we use English quite differently. Also, such contact hasn't managed to reduce Europe to a single language, in spite of constant, daily, and massive, free travel between the countries in Europe. Still, it is quite easy to understand most people from England, and even Australia, even for those of us in Texas, although a strange word, or usage of a word, might cause some confusion now and then.


Well - of course - after all - they are using OUR language - aren't they?

One might think otherwise in some areas of Texas. Just like in some (Cockney) areas in England.
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