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 Posted: Sun Jun 30, 2013 9:59 pm Post subject: Soccer: So easy, even a robot can do it |
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I lol'd, and for the first time, soccer didn't bore me to death.
Robot football players compete with the aim of beating humans
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pjp, this is maybe the third time that you write "soccer" in a thread. So I can't watch this any longer:
it's called FOOTBALL, not soccer!!!
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Sounds like a YP not an MP. When I write soccer, you (apparently) understand the intent. When you write football, it can have more than one meaning. And people criticize us about cultural insensitivity.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 8:42 pm Post subject: Re: Soccer: So easy, even a robot can do it |
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| pjp wrote: | | I lol'd, and for the first time, soccer didn't bore me to death. |
It could have been worse, it could have been robot baseball |
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| Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:41 pm Post subject: Re: Soccer: So easy, even a robot can do it |
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True, 'cause I doubt that would even be funny.
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LoTeK
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| Quote: | | Sounds like a YP not an MP. When I write soccer, you (apparently) understand the intent. When you write football, it can have more than one meaning. And people criticize us about cultural insensitivity. |
actually I don't like the game too... and robots should do something cooler...
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| pjp wrote: | | Sounds like a YP not an MP. When I write soccer, you (apparently) understand the intent. When you write football, it can have more than one meaning. And people criticize us about cultural insensitivity. |
football has only one meaning.
soccer isn't even understood in most places.
Then there is handegg also called 'american football'
or 'aussie rules football' also called 'outdoor bar brawl'.
But if somebody writes 'football' only football is meant. Nothing else.
Now go back watch 'standing around wearing heavy body armor'.
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| energyman76b wrote: | | Then there is handegg also called 'american football' |
Few years ago I managed to get consensus in a bar in Berkeley that fotball is fotball and handegg is handegg. I was so proud.
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| energyman76b wrote: | football has only one meaning.
soccer isn't even understood in most places. |
Demonstrably incorrect on both accounts.
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| pjp wrote: | | energyman76b wrote: | football has only one meaning.
soccer isn't even understood in most places. |
Demonstrably incorrect on both accounts. |
not quite, soccer is usually only understood in countries with english as a first language. Even then most people and governing bodies give their "football" types and regulatory bodies give their sport a different name ("Australian Rules football", "Rugby Football Union", "Gaelic Football") to distinguish it from "actual" football. The one exception to this is in the US. Hence why the US is in the wrong and the rest of the world is correct. |
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Thank you for proving football does not have one meaning. As for the other, my money is on non-English speaking countries which enjoy criticizing the US include soccer in their repertoire.
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| pjp wrote: | | Thank you for proving football does not have one meaning. As for the other, my money is on non-English speaking countries which enjoy criticizing the US include soccer in their repertoire. |
Football does have one meaning otherwise they wouldn't have to add different words to change it. |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 9:36 am Post subject: Re: Soccer: So easy, even a robot can do it |
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Don't make the crime to call it soccer. |
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| pjp wrote: | | Thank you for proving football does not have one meaning. As for the other, my money is on non-English speaking countries which enjoy criticizing the US include soccer in their repertoire. |
then why is it called American football and not just football. If football really had more than one meaning then the correct name for handegg would just be football, but it isn't, its American Football.
Fact is football is football and one sport is called that, there are plenty of derivatives and to distinguish them from the root game they are given additional wording to distinguish it.
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | Looks like they've got a ways to go. |
It looks like they need to go. Badly.
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| Naib wrote: | | then why is it called American football and not just football. If football really had more than one meaning then the correct name for handegg would just be football, but it isn't, its American Football. |
Really? I've never heard it referred to as American Football, except perhaps by someone outside the US.
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