Re: OT: Corpses, etc. (was: Re: Gender in conlangs (was: Re: Umlauts (was Re: Elves and Ill Bethisad)))

--- Isidora Zamora <isidora@...> wrote:

> >(BTW, you don't throw your knife against
> >another knife within less
> >than five meters, and not further either
> >unless you are a wizard at darts.)
>
> Why not less than five meters?  Something about
> the physics of it?
Yeah. Knife throwing involves knowing how far it
takes your knife to go in one revolution, judging
the distance between you and your target and
figuring whether the two distances are
compatible. The trick is throw the knife at one
of the multiples of that distance, so that the
point sticks in.

If it takes your knife two yards to spin around
once, you can accurately throw it at one or two
fathoms (cos it'll spin around once or twice).
Try it at ten or eleven feet and you'll smack
your opponent with the flat of the blade or knock
him in the chest with the handle. And of course,
once you throw a knife, you're not gonna get it
back.

Padraic.


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