Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"?

• Muun@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Before he hit the end of that sentence, I thought torch was going to turn out to mean a lighter. :(

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  • drcouzelis@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s exactly right! I wrote about it in another response. :)

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• morphballganon@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I disagree, because in American english, the object you’re talking about has a word (flashlight), and it is expected that people use the accepted words if they want to be understood.

  How would you like if someone was asking you for a pair of scissors but they called them a knife, and got incredulous when you handed them a knife? You’d expect them to call them scissors, not a knife.

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  • cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I take it you don’t talk with many people who are not Americans

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