Discuss @Tabac Iberez 's article here
This may be a stupid question from a landlubber, but is it really the case that Polynesian vessels are all designated as boats? The definition of 'can fit on a larger vessel' doesn't seem to apply.
I mean, when James Cook visited New Zealand the largest Maori waka had crews of eighty people and were up to forty metres long- longer, incidentally, than Cook's vessel. Was there a ship in the world that such a canoe could have fit aboard, and if not, then surely by definition it was a ship?
This may be a stupid question from a landlubber, but is it really the case that Polynesian vessels are all designated as boats? The definition of 'can fit on a larger vessel' doesn't seem to apply.
I mean, when James Cook visited New Zealand the largest Maori waka had crews of eighty people and were up to forty metres long- longer, incidentally, than Cook's vessel. Was there a ship in the world that such a canoe could have fit aboard, and if not, then surely by definition it was a ship?
I don't think it's a stretch to say western focused categorisation doesn't handle non-western things well.
For myself, I'd love to see an article on the less orthodox terminology that comes and goes, such as: "I didn't have a franger, so my pusher made me get off at Fratton." I suspect that the meaning of this may not be immediately obvious to the casual reader
Sculling? Raises eyebrow. I've not heard it called that before.
My phrase really has nothing to do with sculling. It's RN slang.