Naima_2.3_DQ7
I believe that it all comes back to the fact that we use our palms to touch, to feel, to hold and shake hands, to grab by using our fingers, etc. The palm helps us to experience things, and we use it all the time. Just as the Eskimos mentioned in the book, who are used to giving different names to the snow because they see it everyday, we are used to having a palm to do so many things with. So because we experience through the palm and we use the palm to help us in our daily lives, it is necessary to give a name to it. Because we do not use the back of the hand, we do not include it in our language either. But, isn't "the back of the hand" the name that we have assigned to that part of the hand?
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posted by Naima @ 9:59 PM
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I like that! It makes me think of the saying.. "I know this place like the back of my hand"....
That's what I was thinking when I read DQ7. We have a name for the front of our hand, the palm, because we use it all the time. We probably just don't find it necessary to have a name for something that we don't use very much because we won't even mention it very often. Then again, there are probably a lot of things that have names even though they are barely spoken of.
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