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No. The British haven't called it that since the 1800s.
If you're going to call everything what the British called it in the 1800s, anti racist advocacy groups are going to be BUSY.
Wrong again.
One sport consists mainly of kicking a ball shaped object with your feet until the other team takes the ball via foot on ball action.
The other consists mainly of carrying a vaguely egg shaped object in your hands until the other team stops you enough times via sweaty man on man action.
Fixed it for you.
Next you'll be telling us that pickle ball doesn't involve any pickles.
This is the most tired bullshit argument. If you want to hate Americans just say "I hate Americans" and move on. Do you similarly attack Aussies for their football?
The word "football" is typically used to refer to the most popular style of football in an area. In the US that's American football. In Australia that's Aussie rules football. Other less common forms of football (in a given area) usually get another word to distinguish them, like rugby or soccer. All of these sports are under the umbrella of football whether you like it or not, and claiming they're not is just plain ignorant of what the word football means.
It's also deeply funny that you claim the word soccer wasn't British by... admitting that the word soccer is British. Lol.
I don't, though. That's a bizarre strawman.
At least they call theirs "Aussie Rules Football" and don't insist on misnaming the real thing.
Nope. That's just wrong. There's what the US calls football (handegg), there's the Aussie Rules weirdness, and then there's what literally every other nation on the planet calls football.
You're acting like the outliers are the norm and it's silly.
Nope. Pretty damn ironic to claim with a straight face that it's ignorance to not consider the exception the norm.
Another strawman. I never said anything of the sort.
I said that the term hasn't been used in the UK for centuries, which is what's relevant to your "blame the British" argument.
You still don't understand what "football" is. Association football is the most popular in the world, so in regions where it's the most popular they call it "football" and other forms by other names. In regions where other games of football are more popular they call those sports "football" and call other forms by other names (e.g., soccer).
You being completely ignorant of the history and current landscape of all football sports does not mean it is incorrect to call any other form of football "football."
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I understand perfectly. I just don't agree with your ridiculously loose definition.
Again, disagreement of definition β ignorance.
I know about some places misnaming other sports as football. That I consider it incorrect from a standpoint of etymology and worldwide common usage isn't ignorance.
Name one other country that misnames it soccer. Should be easy, given your argument that having regional differences in what you call football is the norm rather than the exception.
Again, I didn't say that I consider calling "Aussie Rules Football" football correct. I don't.
At least they (sometimes) specify the "Aussie Rules" part, rather than just take over the term with no qualification like the US. Which makes it less egregious but still incorrect.
Which is why I never claimed any such thing. Please retire that stupid strawman.
You literally are.
By which you mean that the US and Australia are as representative as the rest of the world.
That's the definition of treating outliers as the norm.
Nah,the fact that a ball is definitionally a round object is just low hanging fruit that makes it easy to point out the absurdity of your argument.
That I care about words having clear meanings is not "obsession" or "ignorance", it's definitional rigor.
Nope. There's TWO sports erroneously CALLED football by the locals in spite of being hand based and featuring an oval object.
I did no such thing.
I accurately pointed out that it hasn't been called soccer in the UK for centuries, pointing out that 1800s definitions are not valid arguments for misnaming things in the 21st century.
At no point did I deny the fact that the British term for it used to be soccer. I just pointed out that it's not a valid argument since it's irrelevant.
OH MY GOD WHO THE HELL CARES
What a stupid fucking hill to die on.