Quote (Madotsuki @ Jul 2 2014 12:01am)
Took me about 30 seconds:
You said it yourself:
The vast majority (72.1%) of this site's users are not American.
There is no science behind what you are saying. Look up any model of lexical semantics and how it is processed (e.g. Stackhouse and Wells, Hans-Werner Hunziker): we do not parse text by mentally blocking out every other adjacent word, that makes no sense at all.
The disadvantage is that you cater to a tiny minority for shallow nationalistic reasons, as per your own your own post in said subforum wishing to - as the thread is entitled - 'push American values' (
HERE).
For what it is worth, and because you asked, I honestly consider this very petty.
Stating that most users are American is not refuted by stating most users are not American when all demographics are minorities. We can just as easily state "most users are not Canadian, or British, or French" accurately, but it does not take away from the fact that Americans comprise the largest demographic on the site. Additionally, Canadians are most likely to call the sport soccer too, and between Americans and Canadians they comprise an absolute majority of the site's users too.
Quote (Santara @ Jul 1 2014 10:02pm)
Eurotrash everywhere would be up in arms. I say yea.
brmv must have been here, reported for the use of the term Eurotrash.
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