Talk:Flensing

If American's say "Cutting in" and the british say "flenching" then who actually says "flensing?" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.21.199.115 (talk) 18:26, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

The Norwegians. OldBabyBlue (talk) 00:46, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

In fact in all (or at least most) of the Norse languages (including Norwegian) to "flense" or to "flå" refers to the similar process done to any killed animal, and sometimes even humans. It is also used figuratively in reference to exorbitant prices or taxes. There are several ancient "fairy tales" where the protagonist is partially flensed alive as cruel and unusual punishment by an evil character. Have fun digging up sources. 2001:16D8:DD73:F0:C0CC:E6BE:AAA1:121A (talk) 18:12, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

The point of the question -- and also the reason I came to the talk page myself -- seems to be that the parenthetical additions to the first paragraph imply that English speakers don't use the word "flensing", which if it were true would make you wonder what this page is doing in the English Wikipedia. I suspect that in fact that the tacked-on additions to the first paragraph is simply misleading; that "Flensing" is a word used by English speakers for the general (i.e. not just whaling) case of taking off the skin and subcutaneous fat of an animal, and also perhaps the specific whaling uses tacked onto the paragraph may not be so universal as they suggest.

The "English whalers call it this and America whalers call it that" should be cited and probably moved to a later paragraph, because they just confuse the reading of the initial paragraph with unnecessary detail of narrow scope. P.T.isfirst (talk) 17:42, 15 June 2014 (UTC)

Please comment if you would object to this change:

• Change article name to flenching
• redirect flensing and cutting in to flenching

Ike9898 (talk) 15:50, 12 January 2022 (UTC)