Why do knife people like using fancy words??

I use whatever words most accurately describe what I'm doing. I read a lot, and I have a large vocabulary because of that. It's like having multiple EDCs. You pick whichever one fits at that moment. I'm from the south and fan easily go back to basic language, but why? If I don't use advanced terms, I lose familiarity with them.

I kid you not, if you dumb down your words for people around you, eventually you will find yourself somewhat stuck in a grammatical rut. But I agree, many people do it just because others do, sometimes without even understanding what they're saying, lol.:rolleyes:
 
I started wondering...do any of you guys ever deploy an umbrella for light discipline? I tend to only deploy mine for water discipline. :D
 
on_the_edge said:
Ummmm...that is not "tactical". For one thing, I do not see a "tactical pen" in the picture.

Also, post 2 mentioned "blood groove". Isn't that what's left immediately after you cut yourself??? Or is that more correctly referred to as a "bloody groove"?
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No no, I believe what you're referring to is the "channel wound" ;)
 
AQuenga said:
It's the same reason some people pray in Middle English. "Dear Heavenly Father, thank thy for thy day. Fill thee bowels of our bountiful soul with thine love. Sheddeth light and glory upon thee." Right...I don't know man. My rule is this: if you need to use a term, use it. If you're trying to be cool, you's a fool." And, I always, always, "pity the fool!" Hahhahahahhahahahhahahaaha
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You are severely confused as to what middle English is lol
 
RemyKaze said:
I use whatever words most accurately describe what I'm doing. I read a lot, and I have a large vocabulary because of that. It's like having multiple EDCs. You pick whichever one fits at that moment. I'm from the south and fan easily go back to basic language, but why? If I don't use advanced terms, I lose familiarity with them.

I kid you not, if you dumb down your words for people around you, eventually you will find yourself somewhat stuck in a grammatical rut. But I agree, many people do it just because others do, sometimes without even understanding what they're saying, lol.:rolleyes:
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Agreed, use the language that will take you furthest in life.
 
Surfingringo said:
Sure, if you wanted to use it for light discipline, water discipline AND tactical purposes, but then you would need a different tip geometry!
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I prefer the spear point umbrellas, in case I need to make a divot for a bow drill. Or even a trailing point, so I can use the umbrella to skin game when it stops raining.
 
RemyKaze said:
I prefer the spear point umbrellas, in case I need to make a divot for a bow drill. Or even a trailing point, so I can use the umbrella to skin game when it stops raining.
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It needs to be a hard use umbrella for using as a parachute when doing tactical exits from elevated positions.
 
stvpourciau said:
This umbrella sounds awesome..
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Yeah, and the best part is as we are all sitting here making fun of our military spec, rapid deploy, light and water discipline, tactical umbrella...I find myself becoming more and more convinced that this might be something I actually need!!
 
RemyKaze said:
I use whatever words most accurately describe what I'm doing. I read a lot, and I have a large vocabulary because of that. It's like having multiple EDCs. You pick whichever one fits at that moment. I'm from the south and fan easily go back to basic language, but why? If I don't use advanced terms, I lose familiarity with them.

I kid you not, if you dumb down your words for people around you, eventually you will find yourself somewhat stuck in a grammatical rut. But I agree, many people do it just because others do, sometimes without even understanding what they're saying, lol.:rolleyes:
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RemyKaze said:
Satin fairs much better. Those frakkin plantains! Destroying knives everywhere.

I am basically now obsessed with satin and olive drab handle combos now. And I carry my gifted Rat more than anything although I'm trying to pocket this Gayle Bradley a bit.
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Fair vs Fare :)
 
I spend some time on a bicycling forum. The tecno babble is really bad there. It seems that every time I ask a question or make a statement I am responded to by a scientist. All they talk about are the ratios of this to that and the circumstance of this wheel compared to the diameter of that wheel divided by the rolling resistance times the psi. I don't think anyone on that site has a bike just for the fun of riding.
 
marcinek said:
Fair vs Fare :)
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Thanks. When I'm half asleep my brain associates similar words and just sort of picks one. I also said "fan" instead of "can". Feel free to nitpick that one as well, because a couple of mistakes on a smartphone obviously denote the hypocrisy of my statement.:rolleyes:

I wonder if i should go to the same effort and creep your posts looking for errors in grammar. Just put me on ignore if it bothers you so much.
 
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Holy strategic mother of tactical human/divine homogeneity!!! This is the most hilarious, intelligent and literate thread I've ever read on any knife forum. By the time I got to this point, I had been laughing so hard, I believe I collapsed both my EDC and my covert backup lung. Not that that really matters... The undeployable detent of my otherwise assisted-opening diaphragm is in such spasm, I don't think I could breath anyhow. Excuse me for, well, who knows for how long... My next deployment is to take a much needed tactical constitutional... LMFAO

This thread needs to be a Sticky. I say if it isn't made into one, we all rise up and mall-ninja the mods...

Just someone, somehow, PLEASE help me stop laughing... If someone could just stick a tactical pen in my covert necker... Please, I hurt sooo bad....
 
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