As I casually look around articles about slinging and people who practise slinging; except for the Balearic heritage and competitions, video made available by practitioners and people contributing to this web site, I don't see a slinging cultural presence. I am thinking of poetry, songs, colourful names.

To begin, sports and militaries have a wide variety of slang references to teams, player positions, activities, operational units  eceterra.

Is this a conversation anyone wants?

Cheers,
David

Your idea is good. But dificult.
David Beatty wrote on Oct 6^th, 2022 at 9:08am:


What culture ? Prehistoric weapon, sheperd's tool, modern video for fun, and for what part of the world ?

I don't have the answer but your idea is good.

I generally have to make it clear that I said :slinger' and NOT ' swinger'.

This is usually done by whipping the sling out of my back pocket and mentioning David and goliath.

It's the single slinging reference in modern culture.

You'd need to go to Tibet or rural Mexico to find slang terms, as slings are still daily use tools in both places.

Ha ha ha. All good replies. Thanks guys.
Anything I can think of has been used somewhere else.

Cheers,
David

I reckon there should be a German compound noun that should fit the brief.

German is one of the best languages for one word descriptions, that are actually full descriptive phrases in most other languages.

There's got to be a word that means: 'he who teaches rocks to fly'
I'm going to go with: Steinfliegendlehrer
I apologise in advance for any upset my pigeon German may cause.

But I have to say: SteinFliegendLehrer
Sounds really good.
Definitely an improvement on 'schleuderer' - the actual word for a slinger.
Although, apparently it can also mean someone who indulges in self pleasure.
Unless that's a conversation I'm entirely misremembering
In which case I blame Uwe