There’s nothing worse than seeing poor English in print media. Now, I recognise that the Metro is not the Daily Telegraph, but lets make one thing clear: a football player who plays for his country (say, for sake of argument, ‘Guinea’) is not , I repeat NOT a ‘Guinea internationalist. He is a ‘Guinean international’. Internationalist is just not right. At all. In any way. Don’t do it again.
/me has spoken.
mrBen
Ahem…
“Internationalism is a political movement which advocates a greater economic and political cooperation between nations for the benefit of all. Partisans of this movement, such as supporters of the World Federalist Movement, claim that nations should cooperate because their long-term mutual interests are of greater value than their own individual short-term needs.”
True.
But I never said that Internationalist wasn’t a word, just that it wasn’t right. And it isn’t (in this context).
So what would a guinea-pig be if it came from guinea and played in the ‘furry football league’ with rodents from other countries?
Ha!
Sorry mrBen – ‘Guinea’.
No avoiding the question for you…
Well – he’d be a guinea-pig Guinean international, of course.
thankyou for clearing that one up
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