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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hotspur" data-source="post: 1235296" data-attributes="member: 11053"><p>I dont mean to be down on those that dont like birding parlance but a major part of any hobby is learning the lexicon. If you chose not to and feel that it is demeaning it is you who is doing the alienating not the jargon. Most of the common bits and pieces are used in other hobbies and ways of life, I regularly dipped out of going to the pub due to lack of funds as a student. The thing with jargon it is the people that are on the cutting edge of a hobby that dictate it as they are the most active. Im not saying that twitching is the cutting edge of birding but it is certainly one of the most active and social parts of birding and thus the lexicon gets generated as people wait for birds to show etc. Im a fan of most of the terms and find that people that disclaim the words are often far more elitist as they dont want to be associated with such awful english (sorry rant over, some t****r started slagging off twitchers too me and taking the mick out of my use of language when I was talking to a 3rd party)</p></blockquote><p></p>