[rfc] history of 'cherrypicking' term

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 11:25:31 -0500, John A Meinel wrote:
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> Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> > I'm not native english speaker so I try to understand why cherrypicking
> > named actually cherrypicking? What the history of this term? I'd like to
> > understand this word to make correct translation on russian language.
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> I don't know the specific history of it. But the visual image is that of
> going up to a cherry tree, where there is lots of fruit, and picking out
> only the best fruit.
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> It might be that when you pick cherries, you grab them one by one,
> whereas with something like grapes, you pick them as a group.
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> That is the best I can come up with, at least. Maybe someone else has
> more of a history of the term.

I think it really refers to picking (and eating only) the cherry from the top
of a cake and leaving the rest as a metaphor for only taking the best part
and discarding the rest. I think at least in Czech one can also speak about
picking raisins in the same sense.

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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