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

Quoting Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>:

> --- 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.
That's why you've got these African throwing knives with multiple curved
blades - they've always got something sharp in front.

                                                         Andreas

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