American language.

[MerlintheMad]

"they are playing very good"

Actually it is "good things well done": They are playing very well.

 

[eljay]

I don't understand why football is called soccer, when the rest of the world calls it the latter, and what it is called football here (in the US), it is mainly played with hands (like rugby), except for one part of the game in which they actually use their foot to kick the ball between two huge posts.

Soccer is originally a British word (so they have no right to complain to us Americans), that showed up at Oxford and Cambridge in the late 19th c. and was used well into the mid-20th c. It differentiated Association football (soccer) from Rugby football (rugger) for at least part of that time. Americans picked it up at some point and used it to differentiate Assocation football from gridiron football. Then the Brits stopped using it in favor of just "football." We Americans didn't, as we evidently still needed it to make the differentiation. And all of them—gridiron, Association, Rugby, Australian rules, and Gaelic—are called football because they are played on foot, not on horseback.

Now if I could just figure out why I sometimes have a brain lapse and refer to my windshield as a windscreen, the mysteries of life would be solved.

 

[Stinger GT SS]

Ok football codes in Australia are generally referred to & known as follows:

American Football: Gridiron but gernerally referred to as NFL.
English Football: Soccer but generally referred to for example as EPL (English Premier League) & in OZ our National Competition is known as A-League.
Rugby Union: In OZ it’s generally referred to as just “Rugby”.
Rugby League: National Competition known as NRL.
Australian Rules Football: National Competition known as AFL or Aussie Rules.

 

[Stinger GT SS]

Soccer is originally a British word (so they have no right to complain to us Americans), that showed up at Oxford and Cambridge in the late 19th c. and was used well into the mid-20th c. It differentiated Association football (soccer) from Rugby football (rugger) for at least part of that time. Americans picked it up at some point and used it to differentiate Assocation football from gridiron football. Then the Brits stopped using it in favor of just "football." We Americans didn't, as we evidently still needed it to make the differentiation. And all of them—gridiron, Association, Rugby, Australian rules, and Gaelic—are called football because they are played on foot, not on horseback.

Now if I could just figure out why I sometimes have a brain lapse and refer to my windshield as a windscreen, the mysteries of life would be solved.

Stick with windscreen & refer to your hood as a bonnet, your trunk as a boot & fenders as guards & your good to go.....lol

 

[AV8R]

Yes and aussies are apparently showing the US how to play gridiron too.
'I don't know if it ever happened': NFL in a spin over Aussie punter's drop kick

 

[OliverNuther]

Now that we’ve introduced them to drop kicks, probably best we don’t bring up rhyming slang......

 

[Stinger GT SS]

Now that we’ve introduced them to drop kicks, probably best we don’t bring up rhyming slang......

Awww, fair suck of the sav, why not....lol

 

[OliverNuther]

Because using the rhyming slang equivalent of drop kick will get one banned.

 

[Stinger GT SS]

Because using the rhyming slang equivalent of drop kick will get one banned.

Hahahaha, yep better not go there.

 

[AV8R]

Be careful...drop kick has two separate meanings. Lol

 

[Ozstung]

Strewth you lot you've lost me, drop kick? As in dead beat?

 

[AV8R]

A great way to learn aussie slang...

 

[robz32]

a great way indeed

 

[BlaydeX15]

Do our Euro friends shorten Economics to Econ, or do they call it Econs?

 

[eljay]

A great way to learn aussie slang...

Gee, isn't there an Aussie slang video with Chris Hemsworth? Hugh Jackman? Even Bryan Brown would do, if I take off my glasses and remember him in his youth.

 

[Stinger GT SS]

Gee, isn't there an Aussie slang video with Chris Hemsworth? Hugh Jackman? Even Bryan Brown would do, if I take off my glasses and remember him in his youth.

Don’t forget Paul Hogan aka Crocodile Dundee....lol

 

[RVance]

Are there any Asian restaurants that don't have "shrimps" on the menu. Always cracks me up.

 

[AV8R]

Gee, isn't there an Aussie slang video with Chris Hemsworth? Hugh Jackman? Even Bryan Brown would do, if I take off my glasses and remember him in his youth.

I used to have coffee with Hugh Jackman twice a week, seriously , before he was famous.

 

[OliverNuther]

I used to have coffee with Hugh Jackman twice a week, seriously , before he was famous.

I didn’t know you were a barista as well. Was he a good tipper?

 

[AV8R]

I didn’t know you were a barista as well. Was he a good tipper?

Haha very funny. When I was studying my science degree at Edith Cowan University i shared house with two girls who were studying acting with Hugh. He used to come to the house to practice his lines with the girls so i got to know him well. He is just the same in real life as you see him when he is interviewed, a genuine nice guy. The girls went nuts over him.
So i really do know him but i have not spoken to him since 1997. If i bumped into him now he probably may not remember me unless I reminded him of how we met.