The #Syriac (#Aramaic) word of the day is ܓܠܐ (glā), "to reveal." Pronounced "glo." Cognate with Hebrew גָּלָה (gālāh) and Arabic جَلَا (jalā). The book of Revelation is called "Galyono." #Assyrian#Aramaic#Languages#WOTD
Best of luck to 🇫🇷 against 🇲🇦. I expect a close match, with France winning 2-1, probably after extra time.
And hey, don’t place your bets based on my prediction. 🤪
People who insist on correcting others by saying it’s football, not soccer, have no clue how language works.
A word is correct because a community agrees to use it. If over 300 million Americans call it soccer, then in American English, it’s soccer. That’s how language works.
@AbouElLeil10452 You were not forced to speak their language. You are forced to learn their language at school, the language that no one actually speaks.
In 2002, Spain played against the host nation, South Korea, in the World Cup.
Spain had one of the greatest teams in the tournament and dominated the match. However, if you watch the game, you’ll see that almost every major call went against the Spaniards. Goals were disallowed, penalties were not given, and the score remained 0-0, leading to extra time and eventually penalties, where South Korea upset one of the World Cup favorites.
Spain barely complained. They didn’t make excuses or blame others. They accepted the loss because that’s soccer, and if you’re a great soccer nation, you understand that sometimes you lose unfairly.
Spain went home, worked hard, came back eight years later, and won the World Cup.
The moral of the story is simple: learn how to lose before you learn how to win. That’s something the Egyptian national team didn’t show yesterday.
They lost the game. If they don’t brush it off and move forward, they’ll never become champions. They may never even make it back to another World Cup.