Which Soccer Field Do I Pick?

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I’d chose a Baseball field… just to be awkward*.

(* I am kidding!)

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Its gonna be funny when a soccer game come out and you guys dont have any waypoints for being stubborn :rofl:

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My answer would be that if Niantic cared to market that game effectively they would figure out what the sport was called in each country and apply their filters correctly regardless of if we name it in our accurate language or not

Also, I absolutely detest :soccer: and would just avoid the game entirely so that I didnt have to meet any of the fans. No desire to go anywhere near them. The amount of riot police they have to put into the town centre when the local team plays tells me everything I need to know about the kind of person who likes that game

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I meam its lne thing to not know youre doing it wrong because of Niantics fault… its another to know and be stubborn about it

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Wjen it comes to indoor vs outdoor theres really notjing you can do… but football vs soccer… you know tje intentions even though you might think they are wrong

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I wasn’t being stubborn. Football is :soccer:. When I see a football pitch, I think of :soccer:. Soccer is a foreign word that I dont think about unless prompted. I know there isnt a translate option from US English to UK English but if there were, that word would differ.

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Sorry i wasnt picking at you specifically… you did say you were unaware

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When you read the word try saying it in a US accent with your internal dialogue.

Sah-Currr. It doesn’t help at all but it makes it more fun.

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To be fair, although they don’t use it, “soccer” came from the British.

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1891 first sighting of it in print

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Some Brits don’t like it when you point that out… :rofl:

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Ah but language does develop and change and a long time ago we settled down on this one.

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Yes, there are some French words that are adopted by English for example, and some words we’ve given to other languages. Soccer is definitely one that we gave away. It was considered a nickname here when the word appeared and never took off as the official name. If anyone uses it today they get corrected and asked if they’re American!

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