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FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks agoA violin bow is made from a curved piece of wood, the same as the weapon.
Comment on we're all a little gay inside
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks agoA violin bow is made from a curved piece of wood, the same as the weapon.
ftbd@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Yes, but curved does not mean circular. Do either bows have constant curvature?
FishFace@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
OK? But we’re not calling archery bows and violin bows circular; we’re calling them bows i.e. curved. And we’re calling the rainbow a bow, i.e. curved, which it is. Curved does not imply circular, but circular does imply curved.
Besides, I don’t think the proto-indo-europeans were out there with calipers measuring the precise curvature of objects they decided to label with the *bheug- root.