Do Germans call it soccer or football? I've noticed it's soccer in game so I'm wondering if maybe the translators made a mistake.
Imagine calling a game "football" when you hold the aforementioned ball in hands all the time (This post is made by "Literally everybody except americans" gang)
Imagine calling a game "football" when you hold the aforementioned ball in hands all the time (This post is made by "Literally everybody except americans" gang)
In America it's called football from the fact it's a game played on their feet, as well as the fact it's more or less a fusion of "soccer" and rugby, I'm assuming the same or similar reason European football is called that and not kick ball or something stupid. Probably why it's called soccer in US, to differentiate, like how it's football and rugby in Europe, we have all three, soccer, football, and rugby. What else would you call it then, something moronic like hand ball or egg throw?
1. I simply answered your question. 2. There's nothing culturally insensitive about calling out people for being snowflakes.
1. You answered my question, rudely 2. I'll conceed that culturally insensitive probably wasn't the right way to say it, but frankly in my experience in both trips to Europe and online interactions, Europeans most of the time are the ones going "stupid Americans," while the US is indifferent at most, or interested to learn the difference in cultures.
What else would you call it then, something moronic like hand ball or egg throw?
We call it american football, because it's something the american's decided to call football despite actual football already existing by the time it was invented. The issue with calling it soccer is that it's completely random. Just call it european football or something. Australian football is a thing too, so there really is no excuse to call it anything other than football. Also, handball is a sport that exists already.
We call it american football, because it's something the american's decided to call football despite actual football already existing by the time it was invented. The issue with calling it soccer is that it's completely random. Just call it european football or something. Australian football is a thing too, so there really is no excuse to call it anything other than football. Also, handball is a sport that exists already.
Then Americans named their version "gridiron football," or "gridiron," which would be enough to distinguish it from association football, but...
In full, it was known as gridiron football, but most people never bothered with the first word. As a result, American association-football players increasingly adopted soccer to refer to their sport.
Do Germans call it soccer or football? I've noticed it's soccer in game so I'm wondering if maybe the translators made a mistake.
To answer the second part of the question (since the first has already been done to death):
1. The Japanese also call it "soccer" ("sakkaa" written out phonetically). 2. Translators tend to default to American English terms when translating from Japanese into English.
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