A Personal Gripe

[Pharmseller]

People!

Pay attention for a second.

It is perfectly ok to use the word “harvest” to describe killing an animal for use; it is a correct use of the word.

When we attack what doesn’t deserve attacking, it makes us look like troglodytes to the general public. This is as silly as any other culture war nonsense.

Don’t be troglodytes.

harvest /ˈhɑːvɪst /
▸ noun the process or period of gathering in crops: farmers work longer hours during the harvest. ▫ the season's yield or crop: a poor harvest.

▫ a quantity of animals caught or killed for human use: a limited harvest of wild mink.

▫ the product or result of an action: in terms of science, Apollo yielded a meagre harvest.

▸ verb [with object] gather (a crop) as a harvest: after harvesting, most of the crop is stored in large buildings. ▫ catch or kill (animals) for human consumption: the quantity of squid harvested has risen.

▫ remove (cells, tissue, or an organ) from a person or animal for experiment or transplant.
▫ collect or obtain (a resource) for future use: the research teams are leading the way in identifying new ways of harvesting the sun's energy.

– DERIVATIVES harvestable adjective.
– ORIGIN Old English hærfest ‘autumn’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch herfst and German Herbst, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin carpere ‘pluck’ and Greek karpos ‘fruit’.

How long have you been waiting to write “troglodytes” in a post?




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[Wyobohunter]

How long have you been waiting to write “troglodytes” in a post?




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I haven’t; sorry if you had to look it up.

 

[Reburn]

I haven’t; sorry if you had to look it up.

Man.
Talk about picking a silly hill to die on.

 

[Pharmseller]

I’m interested in language, and would like for us (hunters) to sound somewhat educated to the public. In the motorcycle forum I’m a member of, I help the liberals with their gun related nomenclature, e.g. magazine vs. clip.

p.s. My hair is too short to part ;-)

 

[Wyobohunter]

Man.
Talk about picking a silly hill to die on.

It isn’t a hill to die on; I’m encouraging you to use your own language. Ridiculing others for using a word correctly is silly.

 

[Reburn]

It isn’t a hill to die on; I’m encouraging you to use your own language. Ridiculing others for using a word correctly is silly.

See your problem is you just assume you are right and you know what you are talking about.

Please show me where I posted one way or the other on use of the word harvest. I'll wait.

 

[wapitibob]

Some real Karens on here.

 

[Justin Crossley]

There is no reason to make this personal. It's okay for hunters to have different opinions. That's why I asked the question in the first place.

I have the right to be irritated by the use of a term, just as someone else has the right to use the term. It doesn't make either one of us correct; it's just a difference of opinion.

 

[Pharmseller]

It isn’t a hill to die on; I’m encouraging you to use your own language. Ridiculing others for using a word correctly is silly.

There’s your problem. You thought I was ridiculing you. I wasn’t.

And you’re assuming I had to look it up. I didn’t.





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[Wyobohunter]

See your problem is you just assume you are right and you know what you are talking about.

Please show me where I posted one way or the other on use of the word harvest. I'll wait.

I am right, and I do know what I’m talking about. A gander at either the OED or the ODE would confirm it.

You, plural.

 

[Wyobohunter]

There is no reason to make this personal. It's okay for hunters to have different opinions. That's why I asked the question in the first place.

I have the right to be irritated by the use of a term, just as someone else has the right to use the term. It doesn't make either one of us correct; it's just a difference of opinion.

Thanks.

My point is, objectively, it is a correct use of the word. I agree that it isn’t wrong for a word to irritate a person; that is completely subjective.

 

[Wyobohunter]

There’s your problem. You thought I was ridiculing you. I wasn’t.

And you’re assuming I had to look it up. I didn’t.





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I didn’t say anything about being ridiculed, because I didn’t say that I harvested any critters; no hurt feels here.

 

[TandKHunting]

We all need to stop using big words in here.

I thought troglodytes was a species of dinosaur.

 

[Pharmseller]

Frogs.

Get with the program.

 

[bozeman]

Using the word ‘harvest’ is a game changer…..

 

[Foxsoup]

America took the English language and by use of slang changed it into what it is today.
Using terms like Harvest is slang.
Its more American to say you harvested a deer

 

[Wyobohunter]

America took the English language and by use of slang changed it into what it is today.
Using terms like Harvest is slang.
Its more American to say you harvested a deer

Languages evolve, it’s normal.

Modern English comes from Middle English, which is a mix of Norman French and Anglo Saxon (Old English). Our language leans French because the Anglo Saxons couldn’t fight off the Normans.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

There is at lest one Anal person on this forum. It's not me.

 

[GSPHUNTER]

I have had several non hunters, not anti hunters just non hunter ask, why would a hunter say harvest, are you trying not to upset the cupcakes. I said I don't use the term, and I give a crap about cupcakes.

 

[Wyobohunter]

There is at lest one Anal person on this forum. It's not me.

You mean pedantic.

;-)