Here's a subject for 'General Discussion' (which, as far as I'm aware, hasn't featured here before: someone will doubtless put me right if it has), to help wile away the weary weeks before we all start sailing again (yes, alright. I know some have been SAILING away those weary weeks. Well done. It hasn't - so far - been a frostbite sort of winter).
To what extent, if at all, do we/should we protect traditional nautical terminology and language, by using it wholeheartedly and preventing 'left, right, back, front, top, bottom' etc etc from creeping into our written and spoken English around sailing activities? How important, or unimportant, is it to do so? Is it an important heritage which we can help to preserve, or an anachronism we can cheerfully do without?
It's only just occurred to me - is this a 'problem' also among sailors in other countries? Is their heritage as rich as ours?
I know what I think. I wonder what the views of others are?