[Tagging] football or soccer ? - OSM ambiguity

[John Smith]

On 28 June 2010 18:56, Gianfranco Gliozzo <gianfrancogliozzo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> abandon point 2 and decide a standard either british or american english or
> a OSM lingo, but I do not like this.

The problem is people are assuming key/values are supposed to be in
any language, when they're actually for computers to do something
useful with.

I'm kidding, but we could be using numbers and then defining what
those numbers mean in various language files to fix this problem.