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Federico · 19th January 2006, 01:05 AM

Talking to some of the elders in my region a long time ago, they felt that tabak and itak itself are interchangeable, though tabak was used for larger blades while itak was for smaller (eg. oh pass me the itak when asking to pass the steak knife vs. pass me the tabak when asking to pass the cleaver), but then they started messing me up by talking about having large itaks and small tabaks, and then they got into the oh well we dont really know and then back to the oh yeah no its this to oh well not sure to the why do you care if it has a specific name to both tabak and itak are just general words for knife/machete to well you get the idea

forgot to add oh just call it a bolo

19th January 2006, 01:05 AM	#10
Federico Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA Posts: 312	Talking to some of the elders in my region a long time ago, they felt that tabak and itak itself are interchangeable, though tabak was used for larger blades while itak was for smaller (eg. oh pass me the itak when asking to pass the steak knife vs. pass me the tabak when asking to pass the cleaver), but then they started messing me up by talking about having large itaks and small tabaks, and then they got into the oh well we dont really know and then back to the oh yeah no its this to oh well not sure to the why do you care if it has a specific name to both tabak and itak are just general words for knife/machete to well you get the idea forgot to add oh just call it a bolo Last edited by Federico; 19th January 2006 at 01:59 AM.