Re: Reading 757-3a (archive)

On 15.12.2024. 19:38, JTEM wrote:

  Mario Petrinovic wrote:

On 15.12.2024. 11:17, JTEM wrote:

A knife is a blade, a sickle is a blade or blades.

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         So, who cares.

 You do. It's very important to you for some reason. You said
that blades go back half a million years, I pointed out that
technically they go back millions and here you are *Still*
arguing that a blade isn't a blade!  Clearly you care a lot.
 

The important is, what those "blades" are doing. And it is obvious that those blades that emerged in the times that I mentioned, are working as sickles, because there is no reason to manufacture those things for some other reason.

 Cutting meat off the bone.
 Cutting an animal hide.
 

With your short "blades" that you are mentioning, you can cut only one stem at the time.

 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Several-kinds-of-sickles-used-in- the-class-experiment-based-on-the-evolution-of-sickle_fig1_284001270
 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chris-Clarkson-2/ publication/284001270/figure/fig1/AS:440877240852482@1482124733657/ Several-kinds-of-sickles-used-in-the-class-experiment-based-on-the- evolution-of-sickle.png
 Apparently you're wrong.
 You can even use these little shards as deadly weapons:
 https://mexicanroutes.com/macuahuitl/

These are "microblades", which emerged only recently. But, this is all the same for you, of course.
To cut hide you have to have solid sharp edge, not brittle long edge. You cannot use brittle stone in food preparation, because stone sherds will be left in food, so no meat cutting.