This is really just Oda setting up the coming Shanks arc, easing in the realization that Shanks won't be considered a swordsman. You wouldn't shoehorn in a comment like that from Zoro without some manner of thought behind it.
It also confirms the age old theory that the term shouldn't really be...
Shanks is someone who dabbled in swordsmanship and did formal duels with Mihawk, but being a swordsman was never the core of his character. You know, like when Usain Bolt decided to play football for a while.
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