trad versus primitive

[Kegan]

Are you in doubt about this fact?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!

[sailordad]

now with most langauages the spelling of a word will differ over time
even the pronuciation may stay the say along with the the meaning

so are you sure that "spline" wasnt realy meant as "spine"

as for me i have always refered to it as spine and always will
started shooting bows before there wheels on them,so no i am not new to it
it has always been refered to as "spine" as long as i have been shooting bows and as long as my uncle,whom taught me to shoot bows,has been shooting them too
and hes pushing 70 yrs old now,so i would say spine has to be the correct term


there,that was my last few whacks at the horse.
now lets grill it and eat it  

[Justin Snyder]

It does appear that I'm beating a dead horse, but, it one of my pet peeves.

If you don't care, let it go....

Best Wishes,

Steve

We understand that you believe that is the correct word, and we would like to "let it go" but someone keeps bringing it back up.

[Steve Cover]

now with most langauages the spelling of a word will differ over time
even the pronuciation may stay the say along with the the meaning

so are you sure that "spline" wasnt realy meant as "spine"

as for me i have always refered to it as spine and always will
started shooting bows before there wheels on them,so no i am not new to it
it has always been refered to as "spine" as long as i have been shooting bows and as long as my uncle,whom taught me to shoot bows,has been shooting them too
and hes pushing 70 yrs old now,so i would say spine has to be the correct term


there,that was my last few whacks at the horse.
now lets grill it and eat it  

The flexable rods that the Architects and Engineers used in the Middle Ages were called "Splines".
The testing of the stiffness of arrows is a direct application of their splining methods.
You will also find that "spline" is used in mathematics and enginering too. 

I'm sure that spline is the proper term.

I started shooting archery back in 1951.... I'm an old duff too.

My last kicks at the horse too.

The common usage is "Spine" and I know what is really meant, so we can move on.

Best Wishes,

Steve

[mullet]

 You must be typing in Braille. If you haven't noticed since you went on Vacation last time. Nobody Gives a Rat's @$$ how you think it should be spelled. 900, 999,996 people think it should be spelled SPINE. And you are the only one that think's maybe, some, Semi- Illiterate person in the Middleages, might be the only person that knows what he is talking about.
  PM me and I'll tell you what my Pet Peeve is.

[Hillbilly]

A visual aid:



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[sailordad]

 

[El Destructo]

                                       Wow......................am I staying outta this One..........................


                                                               L.M.F.A.O.R.O.T.F.S.M.F.P



                                                                               

[Steve Cover]

You must be typing in Braille. If you haven't noticed since you went on Vacation last time. Nobody Gives a Rat's @$$ how you think it should be spelled. 900, 999,996 people think it should be spelled SPINE. And you are the only one that think's maybe, some, Semi- Illiterate person in the Middleages, might be the only person that knows what he is talking about.
  PM me and I'll tell you what my Pet Peeve is.

As I stated much earlier it isn't that important.

Spine, spline... as long as we know what we are talking about... Who cares.... It seems that you do.

I casually mentioned that Spline is the traditional term that dates back to the middle ages and a get a ration....  Why?

When I was told that Spline was incorrect, I calmly provided evidence that it is the term used dating back from the middle ages.

I don't give a rat what anyone else calls it.  I just call it spline.... That is what all the archers called it when I started shooting 49 years ago.

I'm much more interested in you opinions on equipment and technique than getting in a pissing match over something so unimportant.

Let it go.

Best Wishes,

Steve

[Steve Cover]

A visual aid:

Nice chart...

However, there is an error in it.

When I casually mentioned that spline is the traditional term, I was flooded with responces....

Why didn't everyone say, "He uses Spline instead of Spine.. OK next subject."....

So, it seems that 900,999,996 People seem to care if I use Spline or not...

This is just too trivial to go on for this long.

Thanks for your participation,

Steve

[Hillbilly]

Steve, we're just pokin' at you and having a little fun with your pet peeve. We're easily amused, and you seem to be on a quixotic self-appointed mission from the Almighty to correct our ignorance of arrow terminology by any means necessary, up to and including deadly force. You have a total of 66 posts on this forum, and it seems like 67 of them are connected to the "spline" thing. There's other things to talk about. Stick around awhile and you'll see that we love to poke a little fun at each other, it's nothing personal. Your observation that this is too trivial to keep rehashing is right on the money, it's just not that big of a deal. My arrows would fly pretty much the same no matter what I called the measure of their flexibility.

[recurve shooter]

ooooo! i got an idea, lets just all start calling it "measure of arrow flexability" that way noone will have anything to argue about.

cant ya see it? "have some cane to trade, they should measure of arrow flexability out to around 55-60 pounds" 

[Dave 55]

Spline-spine what a peculiar place to draw a line in the sand,Ive looked at many spine charts.

[Kegan]

I think the horse is sufficiently ground to hamburger. Can we please eat it now ?

[JackCrafty]

Actually, when Marco Polo went to China, he brought some arrows with him to see if he could get a bunch made for a good price.  Being a merchant (and not an archer) used the term "sprine" to describe the "spring" of the arrow shaft when flexed.  But since they had a hard time pronouncing the "r" in sprine, they called it "spline" and Marco Polo, being the wise negotiator, let it go.

That's what I heard, anyway.