Machete

SekoETC · Postby **SekoETC** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:30 pm

I just checked the dictionary.. rapier is "floretti" in Finnish.. hmm, always time to learn new things.

Revanael · Postby **Revanael** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:46 pm

I don't know any of whatever language Pirog just used, but from the looks of it, Rapier and Sabre are the same word in Scandinavian?

SekoETC · Postby **SekoETC** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:14 pm

Yep. That was Swedish. And I may be wrong but since Norwegian and Danish sound a lot like Swedish, it could be the same thing with those.

Revanael · Postby **Revanael** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 4:40 pm

Thats one of the things about european languages - its easy to guess the meaning, roughly, a lot of the time.

west · Postby **west** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:02 pm

Sabres are designed as a quick cutting edge, usually steel.

Machetes are more along the lines of an axe, in that they use their weight to bludgeon through things and the edge to do it better. Machetes are usually iron, I think. You can get them for about $20 bucks, as opposed to sabres in the hundreds or thousands.

Pirog · Postby **Pirog** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:58 pm

west>

Yeah...I have always pictured the sabres as the more sturdy variants...like a cutlass.

http://www.butterfields.com/lib/images/ ... a-1078.jpg

Pirog · Postby **Pirog** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 10:00 pm

SekoETC>

"Florett" is a Swedish word too, for the more slim rapiers.
The modern ones, that bend when they don't penetrate.

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