nekobi 0 Posted February 27, 2003 Share Posted February 27, 2003 so why can't you just say boarder's (or something like rider's) left/right and mean the same thing? it doesn't matter if your back or front is facing left or right, everyone's heading down the same mountain and therefore the left/right side relative to going down the run isn't going to change. Link to post Share on other sites
nzlegend 1 Posted February 27, 2003 Share Posted February 27, 2003 Because skier = skier & snowboarder. BUT boarder = boarder only Link to post Share on other sites
nekobi 0 Posted February 27, 2003 Share Posted February 27, 2003 hmm, this is getting into interesting semantics. i think... ski (v.)= to ski or to board board (v.)= to snowboard BUT skier (n.)= a person who skis boarder (n.) = person who snowboards. am i crazy?? anyone else agree? Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted February 27, 2003 Share Posted February 27, 2003 kamoshika, I don't see how the hell you figure that. Are you humpty-dumpty or what? I hope you pay the word 'ski' overtime for the extra work you make it do... Link to post Share on other sites
mikazooki 0 Posted February 27, 2003 Share Posted February 27, 2003 yeah, i dont put an excess burden on my use of the word ski. it covers skiing and that seems sufficient Link to post Share on other sites
RayInJapan 0 Posted February 27, 2003 Share Posted February 27, 2003 I see said the blind man. I'm glad I asked cause I initially assumed it was like in mountain biking where you say "on your left" to indicate you're passing the person in front on your left, but that didn't make sense hence my question... domo, Link to post Share on other sites
enderzero 0 Posted February 27, 2003 Share Posted February 27, 2003 I must say, this is getting ridiculous, who started this anyway? Link to post Share on other sites
Markie 0 Posted February 27, 2003 Share Posted February 27, 2003 Good question, zeroman, especially after all the threads you started! So are you the Pot or the Kettle? Link to post Share on other sites
mikazooki 0 Posted February 27, 2003 Share Posted February 27, 2003 i find a pot will serve both as a pot and a kettle... however a kettle does only a kettles job. Link to post Share on other sites
snobee 0 Posted February 27, 2003 Share Posted February 27, 2003 I think we should freely use any of the "labels" we want, but some words do encompass broad areas of activities. For example "Let's go swimming" doesn't (I hope) imply that we all should practice our strokes over a few lengths. It puts out a general notion of fun & frivolity in the water that may or may not include breast-stroke, freestyle et al. Even non-swimmers can go swimming. I also recall in days gone past often going "surfing". Some surfboarded, boogyboarded, surfmatted, kneeboarded, bodysurfed and others played, swam, drank, partied etc - BUT we all went surfing. Many more examples abound. Skiing has acquired somewhat a similar non-specific snow activity tag for the broader population coz it was the first general word applied I guess. I wouldn't take it's use all too seriously, not enough to feel victimized for crissakes. Happy slidin' Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted February 28, 2003 Share Posted February 28, 2003 I never 'breast-stroke' at the pool, although God knows, I've been tempted (especially last weekend at the pool at Nozawa - ye Gods, that bikini invited it!) I 'frog-swim'. The term 'skiing', used to encompass various types of fun sliding on snow, will surely slip from common usage when the inexorable march of snowboarding wipes the term 'ski resort' from the languages of the world. Perhaps. Link to post Share on other sites
snobee 0 Posted February 28, 2003 Share Posted February 28, 2003 O-!! That "perhaps" time will probably be when all the swimming pools & centres change their narrowly defining names to non-discriminatory ones such as Water World or Aqua Park or Sea Gaia or sumpin like that. Link to post Share on other sites
Karnidge 2 Posted February 28, 2003 Share Posted February 28, 2003 Then, congratulations, you'll be part of the mainstream! Link to post Share on other sites
oblivion 5 Posted March 2, 2003 Share Posted March 2, 2003 Quote: I never 'breast-stroke' at the pool, although God knows, I've been tempted (especially last weekend at the pool at Nozawa - ye Gods, that bikini invited it!) Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted March 4, 2003 Share Posted March 4, 2003 Nice one! Ever seen a klingon breaststroke? Link to post Share on other sites
snobee 0 Posted March 4, 2003 Share Posted March 4, 2003 O-!! "frog swim"??? Where's that on the learning curve - before or after "dog paddle & "duck dive" Link to post Share on other sites
Ocean11 0 Posted March 4, 2003 Share Posted March 4, 2003 Frog-swim is advanced mellow. Mostly done 2 cm off the bottom of the pool. (Totally off topic still - sorry: I took my boy to an 'onsen-pool' a while back. Trying to swim in hot water is horrible!) Link to post Share on other sites
blinkin'ek 0 Posted March 6, 2003 Share Posted March 6, 2003 I usually just say I'm going boarding. I wonder if suki-jo will be called that though in 10 years time, Link to post Share on other sites
TheOrange 0 Posted March 18, 2003 Share Posted March 18, 2003 Boarding is what I say, or sunobo Link to post Share on other sites
IceEiji 0 Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 Most Japanese will now say sunobo rather than ski generally. And many resort now call "snow resort" rather than suki-jo Link to post Share on other sites
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