Some people are going to be very upset

有人要失望了。

As the world descended into World Cup mania, Facebook decided to sift through its 1 billion-plus tournament related posts to run a little (completely emotion manipulation-free) study. Starting at the beginning of the games, the social network decided to track what was more popular: “soccer,” “football,” futbal” … you get the general idea.

隨著全球掀起世界杯狂潮，臉譜網決定搜羅大量足球賽事相關貼子來做個小調查（完全不帶感情色彩）。早在世界杯一開始，臉譜網就決定針對“英式足球”、“美式足球”、“斯洛伐克足球”等叫法進行一番探究，看看哪種叫法更加普及。

And the most prevalent translation, based on Facebook comments and posts, is going to make some people very unhappy:

基于臉譜網上的評論與貼子，最廣為流傳的叫法要讓一些人不開心了。

Soccer

Football

Fútbol

Futebol

Futbol

英式足球

美式足球

西班牙足球

巴西足球

阿根廷足球

That might numb the burn of the USA vs. Belgium game.

這恐怕有損美國與比利時大戰的熱情。

Facebook also looked at the use of the word “goal” on the site. More specifically, it looked at which countries used the most letters to express its enthusiasm. It turns out that Venezuelans are the most Gooooool exuberant, using an average of 21 characters to spell it out. Here are the top five elongated spellers:

同時臉譜網也留意了網站上“進球”一詞的使用。更確切地說，是研究哪些國家用最多的字母來表達對足球的狂熱。事實證明委內瑞拉人對足球的狂熱無與倫比，他們用平均21個字符拼寫而成的單詞表達著進球的狂喜。

Venezuela (21.2 characters)

Gabon (18.4)

Tunisia (13.4)

Mexico (12.8)

Montenegro (12.8)

委內瑞拉（21.2個字符）

加蓬（18.4個字符）

突尼斯（13.4個字符）

墨西哥（12.8個字符）

黑山共和國（12.8個字符）

And just in case you needed some visualizations:

想要更加直觀的效果，請看下圖：

     

圖片來源：臉譜網

 

（譯者 拉風_悅）