What do YOU call tiny river lobsters?

[ShrekDawg]

Probably some dialect thing

 

[Painted Calls]

What’s a saltie??? Sharks???

Seriously????

Shame shame shame.

It's a saltwater croc.

 

[Painted Calls]

I call it “bait”

The best bait!

 

[ColtHandorf]

What’s a saltie??? Sharks???

While it is utterly horrifying to think about sharks in freshwater rivers and it does happen in Australia...

Horse attacked in Brisbane River by a bull shark: https://www.smh.com.au/national/sha...ng horse was,Brisbane River, its trainer says.

Bull sharks in Brisbane Golf Course Water Hazard: https://www.foxsports.com.au/golf/s...t/news-story/221546492003031f546a6de795a3ce5e

Rare Glyphis Shark in Australia (Jeremy Wade caught one of the estimated 200 in the world in an episode of River Monsters):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speartooth_shark

Sawfish in Australian Rivers:
https://river-monsters.fandom.com/wiki/Largetooth_Sawfish

The term Saltie is frequently used by Australians to differentiate between the two native crocodiles or "croc" species; freshwater and saltwater. These are often called "freshies" and "salties."

Probably some dialect thing

 

[ColtHandorf]

Seriously????

Shame shame shame.

It's a saltwater croc.

I refuse to admit that I was ninja-ed when I went to the trouble of providing more information.

 

[Painted Calls]

I refuse to admit that I was ninja-ed when I went to the trouble of providing more information.

It was a lot of blabbing about bull sharks though.

 

[ColtHandorf]

So making up words to mean things that already have a proper name isn't an issue for you as long as it's the right group of people doing it?
But when backwater hillbillies do it it rubs you the wrong way?
just trying to understand.

No, what rubs me the wrong way is when there is a perfectly good word, like crop, that for literally no reason other than people are too busy making sure they mentally live like someone from Little House on the Prairie, decided to make the word craw. It is still four letters. And changing it serves no purpose. Saltwater crocodile being shortened to "salties" however does cut down on time both verbally and written, when carrying on a conversation in a non-educational format.

 

[ColtHandorf]

It was a lot of blabbing about bull sharks though.

Considering that I also mentioned sawtooth and glyphis.

 

[Silkie Princess]

It's a saltwater croc.

 

[ColtHandorf]

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