Copa America 2020-1

[cgf]

And I have one in 2006

I'd like to say luckily I have another from '96...but '98 was the first tourney I have real memories of


Guess Flick will just have to do something about that with this next generation

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

that beautiful man left it all on the line. What a warrior.

 

[robertmac43]

Jeeze that is a gross-looking ankle...

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Thiago Silva livid over the Brazilians who were cheering for Argentina. And there were a lot of them.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

 

[robertmac43]

Forever mad at Arsenal for not paying up on RDP....

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Forever mad at Arsenal for not paying up on RDP....

There’s another guy on the team that would be perfect for you guys.

 

[robertmac43]

There’s another guy on the team that would be perfect for you guys.

Oh I know, imagine a front of Saka, Auba, and Messi. Would be a great viewing experience

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Oh I know, imagine a front of Saka, Auba, and Messi. Would be a great viewing experience

I was thinking palacios but Lio would be soemthing lol

 

[robertmac43]

I was thinking palacios but Lio would be soemthing lol

I'll take them both if we are being honest. Romero is invited as well.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

I'll take them both if we are being honest. Romero is invited as well.

Goat team tbh

 

[les Habs]

Can’t find it now, but saw something where De Paul was starting this “Brasilero” chant or something during celebrations and Messi shut him down immediately.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

I guess @les Habs has me on ignore

 

[les Habs]

I guess @les Habs has me on ignore

If only I knew how….

Seriously, I assume it was in all those links then.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

If only I knew how….

Seriously, I assume it was in all those links then.

It was on the first one there’s a clip of it. Messi and kun stop him right away. Honestly so classy from our captain.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

 

[cgf]

Apparently the fox broadcast was so bad that my parents watched the Univision broadcast instead even though they know about 15 words of spanish between them

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Apparently the fox broadcast was so bad that my parents watched the Univision broadcast instead even though they know about 15 words of spanish between them

My god it was piss poor. I would’ve rather listen to AB talk to me about Arsenal. Awful awful coverage. I can’t imagine tsn being any better next month tbh

 

[Luigi Habs]

What was some guys saying after the final about Messi again?

 

[cgf]

My god it was piss poor. I would’ve rather listen to AB talk to me about Arsenal. Awful awful coverage. I can’t imagine tsn being any better next month tbh

So glad I found a stream with my new favorite Swiss announcer

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Apparently the fox broadcast was so bad that my parents watched the Univision broadcast instead even though they know about 15 words of spanish between them

I actually love listening to football in Spanish. The enthusiasm is infectious.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

So glad I found a stream with my new favorite Swiss announcer

Random question: how intelligible is Swiss German to a German?

 

[cgf]

Random question: how intelligible is Swiss German to a German?

Other than some turns of phrase that I've never heard around Berlin, I don't really have any issues watching swiss broadcasts. The pronunciation sounds a odd to me...but that's true of so many other german dialects & I'm sure they would feel the same way about my Berliner pronunciations even if I hadn't picked up an american accent over the past decade

I have the most trouble with certain northern dialects that sound more like Dutch or Flemmish to me.

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Other than some turns of phrase that I've never heard around Berlin, I don't really have any issues watching swiss broadcasts. The pronunciation sounds a odd to me...but that's true of so many other german dialects & I'm sure they would feel the same way about my Berliner pronunciations even if I hadn't picked up an american accent over the past decade

I don't speak any German but I've found that American German accents don't really get the hard consonants hard enough, or something. I know English's roots are Germanic but like I've said before, English is a West Germanic + North Germanic + Norman French clusterf*** of a language.

Accents are tough. Take a monolingual English speaker like myself (I have some written knowledge in Spanish but am unable to speak the language) and put him in Quebec City, and see how fast the locals respond to him in English no matter how hard he studied and practiced a single French phrase in an attempt to respect the local language. Not that this happened or anything.

I have the most trouble with certain northern dialects that sound more like Dutch or Flemmish to me.understanding freaking anyone in Scotland when they're drunk regardless of my fluency in English.

I fixed that for you.

 

[cgf]

I don't speak any German but I've found that American German accents don't really get the hard consonants hard enough, or something. I know English's roots are Germanic but like I've said before, English is a West Germanic + North Germanic + Norman French clusterf*** of a language.

Accents are tough. Take a monolingual English speaker like myself (I have some written knowledge in Spanish but am unable to speak the language) and put him in Quebec City, and see how fast the locals respond to him in English no matter how hard he studied and practiced a single French phrase in an attempt to respect the local language. Not that this happened or anything.



I fixed that for you.

Oh man, figuring out wtf they were saying in Dundee was an experience

Though in the end, I had a lot less trouble with them than I do with plattdeutsch.


PS - the most confusing my accent ever got was when living in New Mexico for half a year got me using spanish often enough to start rolling my R's regardless of what language I was speaking lol