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

Costentin Cornomorus scripsit:
> --- 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.
True enough.  But the main reason you don't throw a knife against
another knife is that you're too likely to miss, and then you've
got nothing else (unless you are Two-Knife Bob, Terror of the Plains).

At long distances, *if* you are accurate enough (which is more of a
gift than a skill one an acquire), you have time to react if you miss
or things are otherwise botched.

--
But you, Wormtongue, you have done what you could for your true master.  Some
reward you have earned at least.  Yet Saruman is apt to overlook his bargains.
I should advise you to go quickly and remind him, lest he forget your faithful
service.  --Gandalf             John Cowan <jcowan@...>

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