I have to remind myself occasionally that one rarely sees crochet in stories because it was invented relatively late. Earlier than Dickens having Mme. Defarge knit the revolution, but still. (Taught myself both, prefer crochet but perversely find knitting a more interesting challenge.)
Sometimes the internet is wrong about word origins, or (as in this case) incomplete. I agree that "textile" doesn't come from "techne"--Latin words imported into French and English were rarely borrowed into Greek--but the two do share a root. They're definitely related. Sorry, yuki_onna. (Calvert Watkins isn't always right, either, but he's an authority to cite: for lack of something better at home, I'm looking at "teks-", p. 69 of the little American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, rev. ed., 1985.) Might be one reason why the audience member argued....
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Date: 2009-08-19 04:26 am (UTC)I have to remind myself occasionally that one rarely sees crochet in stories because it was invented relatively late. Earlier than Dickens having Mme. Defarge knit the revolution, but still. (Taught myself both, prefer crochet but perversely find knitting a more interesting challenge.)
Sometimes the internet is wrong about word origins, or (as in this case) incomplete. I agree that "textile" doesn't come from "techne"--Latin words imported into French and English were rarely borrowed into Greek--but the two do share a root. They're definitely related. Sorry,