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Of course HN sees "no one in this enormous, old, well-studied field is certain" and immediately thinks, well I've thought about this for 8 seconds or so and her
by ketralnis 5y ago
Of course HN sees "no one in this enormous, old, well-studied field is certain" and immediately thinks, well I've thought about this for 8 seconds or so and here's my take.
So to do the same thing, I bet they'll be equally confused by all of those tungsten cubes everybody was buying last month.
- narag 5y agoActually something similar happened to me in Latin class. The teacher was puzzled with the word tragula that was described as an arrow that was thrown with a string. How can you throw an arrow without a bow? Next day I brought one and we tested it outside.
- simonh 5y agoMore like a javelin really, as I understand it. The strap was used as a built-in spear thrower, like an atlatl. There are depictions of them in use on coins.
- narag 5y ago"Arrow" was the teacher's translation from the text, that could be Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar, the book that we followed most of the year. It's been a very long time... not sure if the word was (aprox.) missile o projectile, or something like that. Also my uncle taught me to make it the size of an arrow, maybe to prevent me from killing someone :-)
- dkarl 5y ago> Of course HN sees "no one in this enormous, old, well-studied field is certain" and immediately thinks, well I've thought about this for 8 seconds or so and here's my take. It's fun! I'm enjoying reading other people's suggestions as a little bit of light entertainment before I start work. I'm not thinking it would be an improvement to replace the archaeology department at my local university with the HN comment section.