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This made me chuckle: "And of course the many high-school students doing Duke of Edinburgh’s Award hikes, often with looks of total dejection and sadness, and
by noneeeed 3y ago
This made me chuckle:
"And of course the many high-school students doing Duke of Edinburgh’s Award hikes, often with looks of total dejection and sadness, and certainly with much stink, but always with an impressive commitment."
Been there, done that, got the blisters. Totally worth it looking back, got me into walkin, but not sure I understood it at the time.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoIs walkin' the british slang for hiking?
- RamblingCTO 3y agoWhy are you downvoting me for an honest question? I've seen it a bunch of times being used in a place where I would've used hiking and I'd love to hear more. People these days ...
- sw104 3y agoDon't know why you're being downvoted. Walkin' isn't really slang but most people use walking/hiking interchangeably. Hiking is just more official/more serious, like 'running' as opposed to 'jogging'.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoOkay got it, so it's not like hiking is more in a hilly area (but I would guess more probably because it's more serious) or something. I also wondered if when you use walking you wouldn't use hiking. Thanks!
- qingcharles 3y agoAs a Britisher I generally using hiking more when it is a slog; that is to say, when there are more hills or countryside involved.
- NikkiA 3y agoAnd ramblin, don't forget ramblin. eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ramblers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ramblers
- RamblingCTO 3y agoLove it! I'm also an avid long distance hiker haha
- jpsouth 3y agoTo answer your question, no, it isn’t. It’s ‘walking’ with the ‘g’ omitted, presumably as that’s how the poster would speak in person (lots of British people, myself included, would say ‘walkin’ depending on their dialect/accent). A hike is a long walk, but while you hike, you are walking.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoGot it, thanks!
- noneeeed 3y agoGoodness, everyone seems to be getting very worked up over my typo. I meant to type "walking". Downvoting you for asking was silly.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoI think people might've gotten worked up because they felt I was mocking you because of the missing g. I just copied how you used it though, being quite aware that it's walking ...