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Re: Futbol or Football?
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 5 Jan 2000 09:30:49 GMT
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True, but a half-clever American will know that what he calls soccer is
called football everywhere else.
He just won't know how to spell.
;)
--
Paul Davidson
James Brown <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote in message
news:Fnu6Bn.DGq@lugnet.com...
> In lugnet.general, Paul Davidson writes:
> > That's simply because Lego.com is essentially an American site, probably
> > maintained by American Lego personnel.
>
> That's actually quite the opposite of likely, in this case. If the site • were
> Americacentric, it would say "Soccer". Over here, "Football" is a silly • game
> played with pigskin, that has little to do with feet.
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> :)
>
> James
> http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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| (...) That's actually quite the opposite of likely, in this case. If the site were Americacentric, it would say "Soccer". Over here, "Football" is a silly game played with pigskin, that has little to do with feet. :) James (URL) (25 years ago, 5-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
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