The Perfect Metaphor For Soccer

[ajoknoblauch]

Well as a Scot i've been called English enough to say fuck it. You're all yanks!

You are allowed to call members of New York's American League baseball franchise by that name, even though its original nickname name was the Highlanders. In that context, though, I consider it an epithet.

 

[Redpossum]

Is Yank acceptable? :lol:

It all works for me. Being called yanqui is no worse than being called pocho, huero, or gabacho, and I've heard all of those more times than I could count. Actually, huero is more of an affectionate diminutive, the way it's most often used.

 

[scotttswan]

You are allowed to call members of New York's American League baseball franchise by that name, even though its original nickname name was the Highlanders. In that context, though, I consider it an epithet.

Were the highlanders a bunch of Scottish immigrants who liked to play rounders?

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Were the highlanders a bunch of Scottish immigrants who liked to play rounders?

Not sure, and I can't recall when they changed the franchise nickname.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Were the highlanders a bunch of Scottish immigrants who liked to play rounders?

This may answer your question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yankees#Origins_in_Baltimore_.281901.E2.80.931902.29

 

[glasgowjohn]

Not sure, and I can't recall when they changed the franchise nickname.

I think they changed the franchise name when the Highlands & Islands Development Board asked for backdated royalty payments

 

[ajoknoblauch]

I think they changed the franchise name when the Highlands & Islands Development Board asked for backdated royalty payments

I've been to Lewis and Harris, but never to Yankee Stadium.

 

[scotttswan]

I've been to Lewis and Harris, but never to Yankee Stadium.

Lewis and Harris are in the Outer Hebrides, not Highlands and Islands!

 

[sleslie23]

Well as a Scot i've been called English enough to say fuck it. You're all yanks!

Your English temper is flaring up again, I see.

 

[pauper]

Lewis and Harris are in the Outer Hebrides, not Highlands and Islands!

Oh dear, this is escalating into a full blown Yanqui-English conflict!