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Skriven 2005-04-02 10:24:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av TORBJORN MOHN
Ärende: 2nd Observation
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-=> Quoting Torbjorn Mohn to Phil Simpson <=-

 > On Mar 31 2005  Roy Witt wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:
 
 >> It is not /that/ that bothers ut. It is when you guys start
 >> telling us we do it wrong and we should adopt your naming
 >> convention that we get our feathers ruffled...
 
 >> We don't care what you call it, soccer or football. Why does it
 >> bother you that we call football, football and soccer, soccer?
 
 > Quite simple, they want us to see things 'their way', the very thing they
 > accuse us of. Can't seem to win with them, they are always right, or at
least
 > so they think.

 TM> Well.... this time it was actually the opposite that happened, wasn't
 TM> it? 
 TM> Her's a snip from the message that started the discussion of the name:

 TM> ------------------------------------------------------

 TM> Fido.Fidnews message #37132 from FRANK SCHEIDT to MICHIEL VAN DER
 TM> VLIST. Entered on 30th March, 2005 at 07:49, 36 lines.
 TM> There are replies to this message.

 TM> Subject: 2nd Observation
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 TM> ----- quote ---

 TM> I wonder why Europeans call soccer "football" ... [sigh] ... perhaps
 TM> that's Hungarian or Polish or some such language for "football" I
 TM> suppose ... just as German for "bird" is "Vogel" ... in any event it
 TM> would be less confusing if the Europeans would comply with the common
 TM> name for football, i.e., "football".  OTOH since *we*, in the U.S.,
 TM> have no problem with having Germans say "Vogel" for "bird" I suppose we
 TM> should have no problem with Europeans calling soccer "football" --
 TM> especially since they don't even *play* regular football there ...

 TM> -+- unquote -----

 TM> ------------------------------------------------------

 TM> Who is expressing that they want to "see things 'their way' , the very
 TM> thing they accuse us of."?????

 TM> This time if there was an accusation, go back and look in your own
 TM> pond! 
 TM> Torbjorn

But I made no "accusation".  I merely commented on the strange 
fact that Europeans call soccer "football" ... [sigh] ... and it 
*is* soccer they play ... one can easily tell that by noting they 
are using a *soccer* ball, not a football -- the two are *easily* 
differentiated:  The soccer ball being spherical and the football 
being approximately an ellipse of revolution.

But this really deserves no further discussion ...

... "Quite agree, quite agree.  Too silly, far too silly." ÄÄ M. Python

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