02-23-2010, 12:56 PM
Quote:Many words start out as simple descriptors, then become used as the description.We should perhaps clarify that, in this case, it appears to be a Spanish scholar who has adopted the word as a classification, not an ancient source. So it would probably be out-of-place for Ben's fictional character to refer to his falcata, as the word was not used in that sense until the 19th C!
