• Paddzr@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    As someone who did archery at national level… Your comment is triggering my need to point out how difficult and different “longbows” are.

    I couldn’t handle it after years of playing. The term longbow in archery is as calling everything AR15.

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      6 months ago

      Well, a lot of rifles are called AK47 even though most of them are not.

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      6 months ago

      That’s pretty cool that you did archery at a national level.

      Respectfully, I still think that I am correctly interpretting the information on the Wikipedia links sourced above. I’m basing my conclusion off two pieces of evidence. The longbow wiki page linked above mentions that longbows existed in “many cultures”, and there is a separate Wikipedia page for the English Longbow. This pushes me to conclude that there is a symantical difference between the two terms, “longbow” and “English Longbow” though many people assume the latter when the former is mentioned.