Is it worth it to learn naval jargon just so i can read these books?

>>8675311
No because they look like shitty genre fiction anyway. Tbh though, I doubt you'd need to put to much effort in - its not like genre fiction authors can expect much intellectual exertion from the general public. In other words, I think learning naval jargon to read those books would be a waste of time, but if you're really intent on reading those books, you could probably do so without really learning too much.

Just read Moby Dick. Then you won't even want to read that shit afterwards, a win-win

I liked how my version of moby dick had some explanations to the jargon used in the back.

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>“The ship seems to be deserted except for this Capellean,” Fogg said. “Very strange. But doubtless it can be explained. This seems to be a brigantine. And it’s going on the starboard tack.”
>“Pardon, sir?”
>“With the wind from the right. The jib and foremast staysails are set on the starboard tack. The ship is headed westward.”
>“Jib? Foremast staysail, sir?”
>“The headsails. At the front of the ship. The two middle sails, those triangular-shaped ones, attached to the long boom projecting from the nose of the ship. The lower fore-topsail, the fourth from the bottom of the main mast, seems to have been set, but its head has been torn, probably by the wind.
>“The foresail and upper fore-topsail are missing. I would judge that they have been blown from the yards. The main staysail, the lowest of the three triangular sails attached between the two masts, is down. It’s that heap on the forward house. The aftersails have been removed. All other sails are furled, even the fore-and-aft sails. The main peak halyards, ropes for lowering and raising the sails, have been broken. Most of them are gone. Before the mainsail can be set, the halyards will have to be repaired. The seas are somewhat heavy, but the ship is not yawing much, that is, changing direction. But we can inspect the ship at a later time. I’m telling you this now so you’ll have some idea of what to do if I don’t return.”
>That was not nearly enough for him to know what to do, Passepartout thought.

i personally tend to skip all the sail descriptions as soon as i understand if the ship had many or few of them up

oh. it's not jules verne btw

>>8675322
Naval jargon comes up quite often in literature, in Joseph Conrad, HG Wells, Jules Vern, Moby Dick. I'd argue that knowing what a larboard, forecastle, or mizzen mast means would be quite useful if you read a lot.

>>8675311

The only good things are the Aubreyisms.

>>8675384
The thing is though you're liable to pick up most of the jargon as you read when the context makes it clear what the words describe. And otherwise a quick reference to a dictionary should fill you in.

>he fell for the naval jargon meme

"Finding it was likely to overblow, we took in our sprit-sail, and stood by to hand the fore-sail; but making foul weather, we looked the guns were all fast, and handed the mizen. The ship lay very broad off, so we thought it better spooning before the sea, than trying or hulling. We reefed the fore-sail and set him, and hauled aft the fore-sheet; the helm was hard a-weather. The ship wore bravely. We belayed the fore down-haul; but the sail was split, and we hauled down the yard, and got the sail into the ship, and unbound all the things clear of it. It was a very fierce storm; the sea broke strange and dangerous. We hauled off upon the laniard of the whip-staff, and helped the man at the helm. We would not get down our topmast, but let all stand, because she scudded before the sea very well, and we knew that the top-mast being aloft, the ship was the wholesomer, and made better way through the sea, seeing we had sea-room. When the storm was over, we set fore-sail and main-sail, and brought the ship to. Then we set the mizen, main-top-sail, and the fore-top-sail. Our course was east-north-east, the wind was at south-west. We got the starboard tacks aboard, we cast off our weather-braces and lifts; we set in the lee-braces, and hauled forward by the weather-bowlings, and hauled them tight, and belayed them, and hauled over the mizen tack to windward, and kept her full and by as near as she would lie."