Comments on: 2007 List of Banished Birding Words http://djringer.com/birding/2006/12/31/2007-list-of-banished-birding-words/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:45:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: VectisBirder http://djringer.com/birding/2006/12/31/2007-list-of-banished-birding-words/#comment-1641 VectisBirder Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:12:00 +0000 http://djringer.com/birding/?p=211#comment-1641 Re. 'dip/dipped' - like a representative of a nation who call divers 'loons' should call one of our Brit expressions dumb... ;) Nice blog, though. Rgds from England. Re. ‘dip/dipped’ - like a representative of a nation who call divers ‘loons’ should call one of our Brit expressions dumb… ;)

Nice blog, though.

Rgds from England.

]]> By: Lynn http://djringer.com/birding/2006/12/31/2007-list-of-banished-birding-words/#comment-1642 Lynn Mon, 01 Jan 2007 20:43:00 +0000 http://djringer.com/birding/?p=211#comment-1642 Perhaps you need be more flexible and DEscriptive rather than PREscriptive with your lexicon. Language is a living entity, after all. Don't kill it with pedantic rules. I understand your frustration, but we ignorant birders are afraid of you guys and your elitist taboos. We're discouraged from improving ourselves because we're afraid of crossing (perhaps Xing) your arbitrary lines of acceptability. ;) Graduate school has warped me. Perhaps you need be more flexible and DEscriptive rather than PREscriptive with your lexicon. Language is a living entity, after all. Don’t kill it with pedantic rules. I understand your frustration, but we ignorant birders are afraid of you guys and your elitist taboos. We’re discouraged from improving ourselves because we’re afraid of crossing (perhaps Xing) your arbitrary lines of acceptability.

;)

Graduate school has warped me.

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