Watery Word Choices - Fast Fiction

	Fast Fiction Wednesday, January 03, 2007 Watery Word Choices Last night at whalewatching class was a presentation on “Threats to Cetaceans.” The big threats, as you can imagine are whaling, pollution and loss of habitat (because of climate change or loss of habitat). But it got me to thinking about whaling. Why do we call it whaling? When you go out duck hunting, you don’t go ducking (well if you go with Dick Cheney you might want to). Of course when you go out fish hunting we do call it fishing. Why are the words for hunting things in the water like that? POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:47 am Whale Watching • Comments I’ve been thinking of this, and nothing else, all day. My best guess is, like clamming or shrimping, harvesting things from the water that aren’t fishies gets the name of the product. Since these require skills above dangling a thin line in the water, I’m fine with them getting a term unique to their practice. Besides, it could be worse. Unlike spelunking, whaling is intuitive. Comment by Russ on 1/04/07 at 2:35 pm Commenting is not available in this channel entry. Next entry: Evil Evil Scrapers Previous entry: Whale Watch Training 12/26/2006 Trackback URL: http://www.typetive.com/trackback1270
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