When I was a teenager I had a phase where I called soccer football because the rest of the world called it that but eventually my dad told me “You know, there’s a point where acting smart doesn’t make you smart and just makes you annoying. Refusing to use the word that everyone else around you uses doesn’t make you smarter than them.”
So anyways I call it soccer now.
Anyways as a teenager I think I was trying to find small ways to make myself feel like I was smarter than other people but tbh my dad was right, even though I didn’t wanna admit it at the time.
At a certain point performatively doing stuff to make you sound more cultured and educated than other people just kinda makes you annoying and also shows off that you’re not willing to adjust to the most common practices where you are. You’re just creating friction for the sake of it and not really accomplishing anything.
I feel like the actual message here is going over a lot of y’all’s heads
“Let people talk however they want”
Yeah okay. You can talk however you want. You can choose to make communication more difficult with those around you on purpose just to make yourself feel smarter. It’s a free country.
“That’s a mean thing to say to a child”
I was fifteen and needed someone to sit my ass down and tell me how I was coming across to other people. Sometimes parenting does in fact involve telling your kid when they’re being a bit of an ass.
“Only Americans call it soccer”
Untrue but even if it was true I live in the US and calling it football only causes confusion in my everyday life. Your worldview is Eurocentric and your point is irrelevant to my life and this post isn’t about soccer anyways
