TheQuiet1
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Tilli said:
here's an example:
Tilli said:
here's an example:
TheQuiet1 said:Nope but I've got it! It wasn't an 'lt' ending- it was teached/taught. Americans would say 'teached' right? Whilst we'd say 'taught'.
Besides I say 'owned', don't you then?
Utoo said:
as a stickler for grammer
Utoo said:
TheQuiet, as a stickler for grammer, I have to say that it's not "Americans" that say stupid things like "teached" or "knowed"....it's stupid Americans. We actually learn the proper way to say such things in school. Most of us say words properly. However, there are quite a few stupid people out there who speak a dialect of stupidity. The majority say things correctly, but those who do not are the ones that stand out.
Utoo said:
...as a stickler for grammer...
GibsonGirl said:
Kristie said:not to get off topic, but... why do non-US people get so belligerant about us calling it soccer? I've never met anyone here who gets mad that you call it football... it's like pop and soda people. Soda people get mad about it, pop people say "Hmm, that's different. Let's be friends!"
the rockin edge said:
because it is called football everywhere else, and has been called that.
GibsonGirl said:
Now, I wouldn't say that. In South Africa, for instance, people refer to it as both soccer and football interchangeably. It depends on where you live in the country. And no, not just the Yank immigrants call it soccer.
the rockin edge said:
don't come up with new names for established sports.
the rockin edge said:
have they always done that? or did they used to call it football everywhere but started calling it soccer because of influences?
i'm not sure who even came up with the term "soccer", but i am sure that the large majority of the world calls the game football.
GibsonGirl said:
I'm not sure if it has always been that way, but it has been since I've been born, at least.
Believe it or not, "soccer" was invented by the Brits!
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pstone/why.html
http://www.footy4kids.co.uk/short history of football.htm
Utoo said:GG is officially Language Queen for the night!
GibsonGirl said:
inmyplace13 said:
U2Girl1978 said:It's called football here. Overseas it's called soccer right?
Zootlesque said:
Football all over the world is called Soccer here!
Zootlesque said:You're not big on sports, are ya?
I'm not, either... at least here!
the rockin edge said:
interesting.
but still, the official name is football. the federation is FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association)
we should get back on topic though
Zootlesque said:So what came first? American Football, Australian Football or Rugby???
I'm guessing Rugby.
Angela Harlem said:
I like you.
(as if you need my approval or something lol)
We call football both, much to the chargrin of many Australians who are secretly poms anyway, but we do this because we have 4 codes of football in this country. If something can be kicked, Australians just love to have a go. So we need to differentiate.