ChrisJHC wrote:Can we also add into the discussion whether it’s Track or Trail?
Particularly if you put “Kokoda” in front?
I’ll get some popcorn ready
ChrisJHC wrote:Can we also add into the discussion whether it’s Track or Trail?
Particularly if you put “Kokoda” in front?
Zapruda wrote:I hate that the use of the word bushwalking is dwindling. Everyone refers to it as hiking now. We go bushwalking in Australia not hiking! We should be proud of our unique word.
Zapruda wrote:I hate that the use of the word bushwalking is dwindling. Everyone refers to it as hiking now. We go bushwalking in Australia not hiking! We should be proud of our unique word.
ChrisJHC wrote:Can we also add into the discussion whether it’s Track or Trail?
Particularly if you put “Kokoda” in front?
ILUVSWTAS wrote:
Here here.
Zapruda wrote:I hate that the use of the word bushwalking is dwindling. Everyone refers to it as hiking now. We go bushwalking in Australia not hiking! We should be proud of our unique word.
commando wrote:On the other hand there are a lot of authentic Aussie origin generated words now being used internationally as well
into the main vocabulary of a wide range of nationalities mainly slang type words but they are out there,
i was surprised to hear them and thought i was hearing things.
commando wrote:On the other hand there are a lot of authentic Aussie origin generated words now being used internationally as well
into the main vocabulary of a wide range of nationalities mainly slang type words but they are out there
GregG wrote:The whole track/trail debate becomes highly incendiary as soon as the word Kokoda is added. It is my understanding that the origins of this go back to 1942 when Australian AIF and militia were fighting the Japanese on the Kokoda Track, with nary a septic to be seen. Douglas Macarthur, supreme egoist, required all press releases to be about US forces, no one else, so information coming from Australian sources was retranslated into Americanese by his media people and so the Kokoda Track became the Kokoda Trail. I have been to PNG several times and the use of the word "trail" is disliked there just as much as it is here.
north-north-west wrote:GregG wrote:...... And Blamey let him get away with it.
stry wrote:
As for the acronym "TREK", I can't even work out what the words mean. If it's that obscure (to me anyway) that it needs thought to understand, it is of no value, despite what someone was paid to concoct it.
north-north-west wrote:GregG wrote:The whole track/trail debate becomes highly incendiary as soon as the word Kokoda is added. It is my understanding that the origins of this go back to 1942 when Australian AIF and militia were fighting the Japanese on the Kokoda Track, with nary a septic to be seen. Douglas Macarthur, supreme egoist, required all press releases to be about US forces, no one else, so information coming from Australian sources was retranslated into Americanese by his media people and so the Kokoda Track became the Kokoda Trail. I have been to PNG several times and the use of the word "trail" is disliked there just as much as it is here.
Yep, I've read that elsewhere about Macarthur. Glory hound. And Blamey let him get away with it.
GregG wrote:stry wrote:
There's another acronym that would have helped the people who created the TREK mess and that is KISS. They got it partly right with KIS and left out the simple bit.
GregG wrote:The whole track/trail debate becomes highly incendiary as soon as the word Kokoda is added. It is my understanding that the origins of this go back to 1942 when Australian AIF and militia were fighting the Japanese on the Kokoda Track, with nary a septic to be seen. Douglas Macarthur, supreme egoist, required all press releases to be about US forces, no one else, so information coming from Australian sources was retranslated into Americanese by his media people and so the Kokoda Track became the Kokoda Trail. I have been to PNG several times and the use of the word "trail" is disliked there just as much as it is here.
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