Why do knife people like using fancy words??

nifeluvr said:
Thats a good one! i like that. But obviously some on here can't take a joke.
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Yeppers, it's pretty sad when folks devoid of any sense of humor and pathologically anal retentive feel compelled to demagogue and marginalize a member and his/her posts/threads without ever experiencing in their small minded lives the joys of parody, humor, or levity.
 
Oakengroves said:
I encourage people to use a full, proper grammatical lexicon whenever possible. This helps someone not sound like a caveman, or sniveling second grader's first composition assignment.

Honestly, there can be some excesses when it comes to describing knives [especially in the "tactikool operator" arena]. But they are usually few and far between.
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Amen.

I actually appreciate the fact that most people on here use proper spelling and grammar.
 
I EDC a (poly phonetic group 20 square digit key transformed in booster verdonic form of multiply nulls)
 
Doug C said:
Gunz,

.40 cal. for CZ 75 SP-01.

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DC...:D
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pfft. A STEEL gun? Ridiculous;)

As for the topic at hand. I think the door swings both ways. Yes, there are some over-used/over-hyped terms that are common place in ANY community. I find that a lot of the terms some people get bent out of shape over are terms that are obnoxious regardless of the genre of item being talked about. "tactical" "deploy" "deanimate" blah blah blah.

However, I would think that most people who have an interest in a particular subject would like to learn more about it. I'm not saying that you need to get into the ABC's of metallurgy. That confuses the hell of me, honestly. Most of my daily tools are 1095 or O1. But there are levels of education that open new doors to you within the hobby. Conversely, there ARE a few off putting know-it-alls who feel it is there job, nay their duty, to make sure the unwashed masses understand the proper nomenclature. These people are generally pompous windbags and can be ignored.

I just think it's a good idea to absorb whatever you can when you can. It makes the hobby a lot more enjoyable if you can converse with different circles therein. Just my two cents.
 
Samon said:
Nyone else got a word to replace carry, one that doesn't overly imply the mass/importance of the knife itself..? lol
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I don't have a problem with "carry", but I guess I could start using the word "tote".
I think I'll tote my Busse Special Forces Natural Outlaw today :p
 
I don't know what a "fancy" word is, but whatever terms one uses when describing things, at the very least, use them correctly. Now, for things that just get on my last nerve...like the self anointed experts who use the term "clip" to describe a magazine, or "pistol" when talking about S&W revolvers, and "automatic assault rifles" when talking about semi-auto AR-16's used for hunting, or calling a self feeding shotgun an automatic weapon of war, blah, blah, blah, etc, etc, ad nauseum.
 
Ken44 said:
I don't have a problem with "carry", but I guess I could start using the word "tote".
I think I'll tote my Busse Special Forces Natural Outlaw today :p
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Tote! Yes, yes!

But in what manner will you deploy your Busse..? and is it your edc or your tactical street defender for the day?
 
Because knife guys are cool so we use cool words! haha I'm kidding in my case its because when you say I'm carrying a self defense knife people get pissed because they don't believe in "self defense" at least that's how it is in California. That's why saying I carry a knife for "tactical" purposes is much better.
 
It gets me when they use the word traditional to describe an old fashioned or out dated knife. I hike my EDC around. Tongue in cheek here boss.
 
The words usually make sense in context and these words seem fairly basic and not sophisticated. That is my opinion but maybe I learned a different English than you. Just depends, I think you are partly right though and it is something I have just adapted to. I try not to over use the word tactical or use it in the wrong sense.
 
Samon said:
'deploy' lol!
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I laugh a lot at that as well. Although not so funny now, I use to get a real kick out of some teenager in the woods with his camera reviewing a knife that was worried about its "rapid deployment under difficult conditions". Or the guy that sits in his chair absent mindedly flicking his knife while watching TV wondering if he should by another knife that "deploys" more rapidly. After all, that UPS package or a random apple could have the chance to strike first unless you draw your knife first and deploy immediately!

I work with different veterans groups here is town and have for years. Even for those deployed, they never use that term for opening or using their knives. I have been hunting in South Texas for about 45 years and work in a blue collar industry. I had never heard term "deploy" as a description for pulling your knife out to use it until I ran across this forum. I thought the guys were joking around!

Samon said:
The one that bugs me is the almighty acronym 'edc'! I shudder when people say it, or use it like this.. "I'm gona edc this knife today". It doesn't make sense!!! arrrggh
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I know what you mean. Grammatically, well, the term suffers here. But since I have smoked cigars for 40 years, I was confused about the use of the term EDC. For the last 35, before this forum was a twinkle in Spark's eye, we used to call out our favorite daily cigars as an EDC. Everyone that smokes has one, and we all like to compare. So it was strange for me a few years ago to see a thread started with "what's your favorite EDC these days" talking about knives.

Samon said:
Another one is 'carry'. It implies the knife has some sort of substanial weight/mass and thus needs to be moved around on your person differently to a set of keys! sadly I can't think of another word to replace it.. so i just don't go down that route these days. maybe.. 'take'? 'pocket' not bad. Um.. lol 'equip'!
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"Carry" or "carrying" is an old reference from the 40s movies where someone was carrying a gun. He could also be "heeled" or "packing" and many other cool slang terms for having a gun on his person. I think that the "carry" reference migrated to knives from those that see their knives as weapons.

Me, I see mine as tools so I am not likely to use that reference. Besides, here in Texas where we have Concealed Carry licensing, it means carrying a gun, not a knife. If you tell someone here you are "carrying", you can be damn sure they think you have a gun on your person, not knife.

In most cases I think the vernacular used here is part of the club house communication set. BF has so many members from so many different backgrounds and ages that it has developed its own way of expressing itself. Even on other knife sites I don't see some of the terms used here expressed by their members.

Robert
 
When it comes to knives, I do agree that certain terminology can seem like a bit of overkill from time to time.
Then again, as a knife maker, sometimes it helps to be able to translate those 50 cent words in order to give the customer what they want (within reason) ;)

All that said, I work in a roll grinding shop as a maintenance manager, and when you're working on machines with 1000 different but sometimes very similar parts, it sometimes helps to have a vocabulary that expands beyond "that thing-a-ma-jogger over there" or "that round, steel thing with pointy parts on it".

Now, what's the difference between a bearing race, a collar, a sleeve, a bushing, a babbit, and a cylinder?
 
Damn. I better change a recent post I just used the word "deploy" on. I'll use more pedestrian words from this point forward I guess. I didn't realize how sensitive some people are towards alternate forms of verbal expression. I'm burning my thesaurus to make you happy.
 
Scurvy092 said:
Amen.

I actually appreciate the fact that most people on here use proper spelling and grammar.
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Definitely! Communication is one of the hardest things you'll ever have to do (believe it or not, language is extremely limiting. Try describing the color red to a blind man). On the other hand, a lot of knife terminology is so specific that one of us could easily describe a knife (i.e. 4" flat ground drop point, with a small false edge). It's easy to poke fun at words like tactical that aren't as specific as we're used to.

Remember also, more often than not your friends on the Internet are this guy!

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A couple of my favorites include, but aren't limited to, 'knive' and 'knifes'. oh and of course do not forget the fella who feels no need for punctuation and in turn creates such a lengthy run on sentence that you often forget what it started talking about in the first place. AND THE CAPS LOCK FOLKS.

There's a special place for everyone here. :)
 
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