"Thru-hike" is illiterate, and should be changed

[clured]

Now, I may just be a stickler, but I think "thru-hike" is really stupid. I hate it when English is bastardized, like "Toys are Us" (should be toys are we!) or "drive-thru," etc.

It makes us look illiterate and bum*****. I've been filling out applications for grants/fellowships through my school lately, and when I am asked for information about what I did last summer, I always end up writing "through-hiked" because "thru-hiked" looks so infantile.

So lets all agree to change?

[sarbar]

It is a catch phrase, Professor Fix-It. If it worries you THAT much, why don't you say " I was a long distance hiker", which is more accurate than through-hiker.

[Pedaling Fool]

After seeing all your post on maps and now this, I'm starting to think you're nothing but a troll.

[Alligator]

Degt!
Poahf.

[Shiraz-mataz]

Does this school your applying for grants with NOT have a dicitionary? Hmmmm... Let's see.... Yep! "Thru" is in there! An informal form of through. As an engineer I use "thru" all the time (thru-hole, etc.). Let's worry about something more important...

[The Weasel]

Clured:

It's a "term of art" and correctly spelled as "Thru-hike", just as the New York Thruway is a chosen term. Your applications can say, "I 'thru-hiked' the Appalachian Tail by hiking though all of the states it's part of."

Using that term makes trail hikers look no more "infantile" nor does it "bastardize English" any more than saying "lets all agree to change" and leaving the apostrophe out of "let's".

TW

[Gray Blazer]

Don't be a don't bee, do be a thrubee. How dare you accuse me and others of being infantile. I'm not changing and I'm holding my breath until you change first!! Infantile indeed!!

[Gray Blazer]

Look out Weasel. You just ended a sentence with a preposition. Clured is really going to lose it now.

[Lanthar Mandragoran]

Does this school your applying for grants with NOT have a dicitionary? Hmmmm... Let's see.... Yep! "Thru" is in there! An informal form of through. As an engineer I use "thru" all the time (thru-hole, etc.). Let's worry about something more important...

Apparently clured can't be bothered with tiresome academia...

[stumpy]

I bet you just love to read text messages on the cell phone!!!!!!!

[Johnny Thunder]

I bet you just love to read text messages on the cell phone!!!!!!!

Don't you mean "cellular telephone"?

[Ender]

No.


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[The Weasel]

Look out Weasel. You just ended a sentence with a preposition. Clured is really going to lose it now.

Oh yeah?* Oh yeah?** And*** who**** do you think hes***** going to address that to?******

TW

* Comma missing.
** Comma missinng again.
*** Sentence should not begin with conjunction.
**** Correct pronoung is "whom", properly used as "to whom".
***** Apostrophe missing.
****** Sentence concluded with preposition.

PS: These things matter? Clu, if these matter to you, you might need a life. They're holding sales on them at the dollar store. Three for a buck.

[johnny quest]

whiteblaze has its own andy rooney.

[dixicritter]

In all actuality, the ATC doesn't even recognize the term Thru-hiker anyway... it is 2000 miler. So it is much ado about nothing if you ask me.

[Ender]

And also... saying ""Thru-hike" is illiterate" is the wrong way to say it anyway. What it says is that "Thru-hike" can't read. Which is not possible.

How it should read is "Spelling it "Thru-hike" and not "through-hike" is illiterate."

If you want to get all uppity about it.

Good grief. It's thru-hike, not through-hike. Get over it.

[Lilred]

Now, I may just be a stickler, but I think "thru-hike" is really stupid. I hate it when English is bastardized, like "Toys are Us" (should be toys are we!) or "drive-thru," etc.

It makes us look illiterate and bum*****. I've been filling out applications for grants/fellowships through my school lately, and when I am asked for information about what I did last summer, I always end up writing "through-hiked" because "thru-hiked" looks so infantile.

So lets all agree to change?

This is Lame

[snowhoe]

I bet you didnt like reading the entrys at the shelters every night. Because i no I kant speell.

[Seeker]

Clured:
Using that term makes trail hikers look no more "infantile" nor does it "bastardize English" any more than saying "lets all agree to change" and leaving the apostrophe out of "let's". TW

dang, that's funny... lmao...

oh. excuse me. that should read "I am laughing vigorously".

[RITBlake]

Now, I may just be a stickler, but I think "thru-hike" is really stupid. I hate it when English is bastardized, like "Toys are Us" (should be toys are we!) or "drive-thru," etc.

It's actually Toys"R"Us