# A response worthy of a Doper

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-worthy-of-a-doper/629262>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 24, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-worthy-of-a-doper/629262 "2012-07-24T17:40:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-worthy-of-a-doper/629262/1 "2012-07-24T17:40:35Z")

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Reading [this](http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2999543&cid=40747647) response to a thread on Slashdot, I couldn’t help thinking of something like Cervaise’s [stinging evisceration](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51270&perpage=50&pagenumber=1) of a telemarketer.

The interchange went like this:

- Person A posted about their experiences on a farm, used an industry jargon term “discer”
- Person B challenged person A that no one who had really worked on a farm would call it a “discer” rather than a “disc”
- Person A responded with the sarcastic barrage I linked to above.

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**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-response-worthy-of-a-doper/629262/2 "2012-07-24T18:22:58Z")

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That’s pretty good, yup.

I would just add that in my experience growing up on a farm (which is every bit as much a lie as that guy’s!) “discer” would refer to a seeding implement utilizing discs, and “disc” would refer to a tilling implement utilizing discs. No one would blink if you used them the other way about though.