Geocacher? Surely thats the wrong title!

[+currykev]

I was out a walking last weekend,braving the wintry,windy conditions on the coast of Jersey.

Why was I there?....you are probably not asking yourself!

I was there as a GEOCACHEE.

And I thought to myself,surely most of the members (and those non members too ) of this website are not CACHERS but are in fact CACHEES.

Could someone please back me up on this....or not!!!

[+Team_CSG]

Maybe it is just the differences in English between the ponds, but I would consider someone who places a cache as the CACHEE and the person finding it as the CACHER

[Izzy and the Lizard King]

Maybe it is just the differences in English between the ponds, but I would consider someone who places a cache as the CACHEE and the person finding it as the CACHER

 

There may be differences but surely the following example is true for both sides of the Atlantic:-

 

One who provides employment is an EMPLOYER

One who finds employment is an EMPLOYEE

 

It would only be right for geocaching to follow the same principle, wouldn't it?

[+Dizzley]

Maybe it is just the differences in English between the ponds, but I would consider someone who places a cache as the CACHEE and the person finding it as the CACHER

In anyone's English to cache means to hide. So, a cacher is someone who hides a cache.

 

Cachee isn't really a word (except in French, see below); but if it were it would mean someone or something hidden.

 

But as for me - I would use (geo-)cacher as anyone engaged in the hobby: both hider and seeker.

 

Cachée is a French adjective (f) meaning hidden.

 

Cachet - is the kind of charisma a geocacher has - consisting mostly of the aroma of peat bog, beer and nettles.

 

Who started the Pedants' Revolt?

-- Which Tyler

[The Royles]

I'm mostly with Dizzley, except that Geocacher is surely someone who hides OR seeks a geocache.

 

IMO this just follows the same logic as letterboxing.

[+Renegade Knight]

I use cacher as generic for both hider and finder. This is a newer activity so new forms of words are valid.

[+Coppers Lot]

I personnally think your splitting hairs and thinking too much about this 'hobby'. Who cares what the term is.

[+Team Sieni]

So someone who hits you over the head whith a GPSr is a geocosher?

 

And a dirty old man who hangs around in the bushes wearing nothing but a mac and a tupperware box (marked "contents harmless", of course) is a geoflasher?

Edited August 24, 2007 by Team Sieni

[+FollowMeChaps]

Voulez-vous cacher or cahee avec moi, ce soir?