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The UX is a mess. Small example: if you try to manually identify a movie against a db, it will give you a list of matches with cover thumbnails and the first 10 characters of the name. So you click one to see if it's the right match, and it shows you exactly the same information, but in a modal prompting if you want to apply this (you can only nuke metadata, not merge or select values you want). If you're still unsure and want to see the others, you can click back (in the modal), which makes Jellyfin panic and bring you all the way back to the movie page, your API/DB search wasted and needing to be run again, i.e. starting over from scratch.

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Gap year and backpacking, for most speakers of English, also refer to kinds of travel. Other countries have to have multiple words for "missing work" (jesus christ)

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Actually this misses vital context (shock).

Football was the name of the game for hundreds of years among the common people.

Then at prestigious boarding schools, it became codified and gentrified as "association football". Posh (read: elitist) slang often abbreviates things to -er. Hence (a)socc-er. The same applied to rubgy (fully originated in elitist schools) which is shortened to "rugger". As in "rugger bugger".

So Americans are using the pretentious, elitist, never in common usage term, which they settled on either because of Americans thinking they were being worldly or because posh kids were the people that could travel to the US and influence things there.

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I'm not claiming that every individual calling it soccer was posh or indeed tried to sound posh. But that's how it stuck in America, where there was no working class attachment to "football" to contend with, and why it sounds weird to European ears. It's also a useful distinguishing word from... soccer because other football exists. Gaelic football where I'm from, Aussie Rules, and for reasons best unexplored, that game where Americans only allow one specific guy to kick the ball