Betel pestles and their handles

A. G. Maisey · Yesterday, 02:01 PM

Maybe he picked it up in the same place.

However, the point of my interest is this:-

in probably all languages there is wide variation in the rendition of the words used to convey an idea, words that appear to be different might not be so different after all, and when we come to the transfer of a word written in one script to the way in which it is written in another quite different script we encounter all sorts of problems, so it is perhaps advisable when dealing with the "correct" & "incorrect" names for all sorts of things to remember that "correctness" can only ever apply to a certain window of time in a specific location. The same caution can also apply to the vocal rendition of a word when that word is used by people from differing locations & times.

Yesterday, 02:01 PM	#16
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 7,059	Maybe he picked it up in the same place. However, the point of my interest is this:- in probably all languages there is wide variation in the rendition of the words used to convey an idea, words that appear to be different might not be so different after all, and when we come to the transfer of a word written in one script to the way in which it is written in another quite different script we encounter all sorts of problems, so it is perhaps advisable when dealing with the "correct" & "incorrect" names for all sorts of things to remember that "correctness" can only ever apply to a certain window of time in a specific location. The same caution can also apply to the vocal rendition of a word when that word is used by people from differing locations & times.