[Lexicog] Re: Naming the Beautiful Game: Football or Soccer?

[Michael Nicholas]

Dear Fritz,
     I think the song in question mentions how brave and honest and intelligent and honourable we English are  - while underlining that our most typical trait is that most English of virtues - MODESTY.
   
   The point I wanted to make is that this soccer/football debate is about how language  community B gets language community A  speakers to refer to the achievements of  A  in the language of community B. The next step is for B speakers to use A language instead of their own language in certain situations - (See the Jaques Tati film The Holiday of M. Hulot(?))

Fritz Goerling <Fritz_Goerling at sil.org> escribió:
              Sure, John, reminds me of the comic song with the refrain 
  “The English the English the English are best 
I wouldn't give tuppence for all of the rest.”
  
  Well, if England is the mother country of modern*  football, others have refined
  the game (I’ll send you something funny off-list, showing different football
  tactics which confirm our stereotypes about each other).
  
  Let’s keep our eye on the ball,
  
  Fritz
  
  *Maybe we can start a discussion about what is “modern”. 
        John Roberts wrote:
  Thanks, Michael. And the British can do this too. See this website:

http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/BestifBrits.htm

... but I think we have taken our eye off the ball.




  



  

         

 		
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