Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 14 days agoWhat's a process where you prefer the old way of doing things instead of how it's done now?message-squaremessage-square200linkfedilinkarrow-up1131arrow-down11
arrow-up1130arrow-down1message-squareWhat's a process where you prefer the old way of doing things instead of how it's done now?Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 14 days agomessage-square200linkfedilink
minus-squareHubertManne@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·13 days agoI don’t think anyone mowed grass with a scythe. At least for me mow suggests ornamental grass.
minus-squareDasFaultier@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 days agoEnglish is my second language, but my understanding was that nobody mowed their lawn with a scythe, but tall grass and wheat is something that you would absolutely have cut with a scythe.
minus-squareHubertManne@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 days agoCertainly but you said mowing grass with a scythe instead of a mower. Nobody mows grass with a scythe and no one harvests wheat with a mower.
I don’t think anyone mowed grass with a scythe. At least for me mow suggests ornamental grass.
English is my second language, but my understanding was that nobody mowed their lawn with a scythe, but tall grass and wheat is something that you would absolutely have cut with a scythe.
Certainly but you said mowing grass with a scythe instead of a mower. Nobody mows grass with a scythe and no one harvests wheat with a mower.