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Paddzr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

As someone who did archery at national level… Your comment is triggering my need to point out how difficult and different “longbows” are.

I couldn’t handle it after years of playing. The term longbow in archery is as calling everything AR15.

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Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Well, a lot of rifles are called AK47 even though most of them are not.

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- ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  According to the media, every gun is either an AR-15 or a Glock.
  
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  - Aux@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Depends on the media I guess, because every gun is literally AK.
    
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reliv3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
That’s pretty cool that you did archery at a national level.

Respectfully, I still think that I am correctly interpretting the information on the Wikipedia links sourced above. I’m basing my conclusion off two pieces of evidence. The longbow wiki page linked above mentions that longbows existed in “many cultures”, and there is a separate Wikipedia page for the English Longbow. This pushes me to conclude that there is a symantical difference between the two terms, “longbow” and “English Longbow” though many people assume the latter when the former is mentioned.

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- ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I think that’s an English thing because they’re still celebrating Agincourt.
  
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  - AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yeah, MIT prefers pistol dueling for its Certification of Piracy
    
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