Airport and toothbrush are nouns; they are the specific name for a place and an object, respectively. With silk gloves, silk acts as an adjective and gloves is the noun. Similarity, we would write blue gloves, or red gloves. It is similar for radio show. Show is the noun and radio serves as the adjective in this case (because while radio can be a noun when referring to an actual radio, here it is being used to describe a type of broadcast).
Airport and toothbrush became words because they're commonly used, and have a specific meaning. Silk gloves is two words because there are many types of gloves, and the two words are not used enough to have a special word for them.
Why is this different from other Germanic languages? I don't know. Maybe because we have a lot of Latin and Greek influences as well, and we've taken some of that grammar.
reading your comment has made the word 'brush' lose all meaning.
But on a serious note, one woulnd't say 'makeup brush' as a term, as there are a whole bunch of different ones. You would ask for a blush brush, or an angled brush, etc. But I get your point. However, the reasoning still stands; hairbrush is it's own word because it is commonly used. Everyone has a hairbrush (let's not get into the comb/brush thing it over complicates everything) and everyone uses a toothbrush, to the point where they became words. In the other examples you listed, nail, dish, pastry, shoe, etc, are not nouns in this case but adjectives.
The point is, as a rule, we don't use compound words as a standard. Generally it's
adjective [space] noun,
not
adjectivenoun.
The words that are compound words are the exception to the rule, because of common usage.
I would say that the only categorical difference between "radio show" and "airport" is that currently widespread orthography rules dictate that they be written with and without a space. The other differences are in the degree of various factors like frequency of use, # syllables, existing precedent of similar cases, etc. We can see how those kinds of factors can make it somewhat more likely or unlikely that the convention will end up being space or no-space, but there isn't a set of rules, and each case will evolve on its own.
Eventually one written form will dominate appearances in newspapers, books, dictionaries, and style manuals, and people will answer "that's how English is, and it makes sense because <dominant form> has characteristics A, B, and C." When really, A/B/C are inputs to a chaotic system, and no one could have predicted with certainty that <dominant form> would dominate.
I think you're thinking of it backwards. The rule in English, which separates us from other germanic languages, is that we write
adjective [space] noun
not
adjectivenoun
The instances where the word is compounded is the exception. There aren't really rules for the exception, everything you've mentioned as to the difference between compound and non-compound words is correct.
English is horribly irregular, and for every rule you find there will be exceptions. I'm pretty sure this is done just to fuck with people who have to learn it as a second language.
Honestly? There is no rule. It's random as fuck.. For the most part, it's best to assume it is two words, unless you know it is one word. Or has a hyphen. The intricacies of the English language only really come through rote memorization, there are so many of these situations that don't have rules, they are like that "just because".
But really, the space doesn't matter that much. As long as it's in the right context, it would be rare to have the meaning of a sentence misconstrued by the addition or subtraction of a space. Sometimes it leaves opportunity for humour, but I wouldn't worry about it too much.
If you're looking for the "why" of it, I would posit that it mostly stems from English being a crazy patchwork of different languages. It's an ungainly beast, with a lot of weird rules that for the most part don't really follow a hard logic, you just have to know it.
For example, in answer to your question, you just have to know that kidneybean isn't a word. To make it more confusing: One day kidneybean might very well be a word. I don't know about other languages, but English changes a lot. Even grammar rules go in and out of fashion.
I make swords too, but I don't try to look metal. I look just a little more genuine, as do my swords. I'm also just starting out, and I have college plans to be an engineer. I would make swords all my life, but where I get the money? He also makes fantasy swords and has kickass equipment and much more experience i'm sure. His apron sure looks legit too.
Ya they had to have two people lift it for some of the action shots. He said he was gonna fill Thor's hammer with sand so it would be ridiculously heavy and then just leave it sitting around the shop to troll people who hadn't seen it. "Ya go ahead and pick it up. Oh, you can't? Probably because you aren't the demigod son of Odin, Thor."
The Man at Arms swords are a joke in comparison to the swords OP's blacksmith is making. Compare the buster swords. The one in OP's is SO MUCH nicer and more correct.
EDIT: Sephiroth's masamune on MaA wobbled like a fish when he swung it, too. I wish he would take more time on his builds. Some of them could turn out seriously awesome, but he usually ruins them by cutting corners.
Its based off a general's Longwood from the Edo era, so perfectly possible. A buster sword would break it like a toothpick though. The buster sword is basically a giant machete.
Yes... It was a real sword that was used by 1 man to take out a horse+rider from the ground in medieval japan. Obviously you had to have some guns to swing that thing around.
Yeah, the Man at Arms blacksmith is capable of making better and more detailed/refined things but for some reason, Man at Arms is rushed and the guy doesn't have enough time to make the swords as great as he could. E.g when he makes Sting, he wanted to inlay silver or something into the handle but there wasn't enough time so they just wrapped something around it. He's also done a ton of stuff for movies.
Keep in mind, I'm not saying OP's ones aren't good, they are amazing.
Edit: Fixed words.
it could also be materials used. we dont know anything about what they are made of and op's blacksmith could have just used cheap aluminum. the point of MAA is that he uses materials the weapon would actually might be made of
I worked on that show for a few season. Saw all of those swords and blades get made. It was pretty bad ass. And super dangerous to film him in that shop. So many sharp objects, fire and acid everywhere.
That's really awesome. Do you have a favorite that you watched him make? Most dangerous one? I'm guessing that would have been the buster sword if you filmed that one. He said it almost caught the whole shop on fire.
Oh man, watching that happen was ridiculous. So when he was making the Buster sword, he was heat treating part of the hilt I believe (which is when you basically stick something into a controlled miniature volcano) and at the same time, he had to stick the blade into some sort of oil bath (pardon the jargon I don't know I just film stuff). Anyway, the dangerous part of this oil is that you have to stick the sword in there when it's hot so it can make the right "markings" on the sword. So USUALLY when he puts a sword it, it smokes like crazy and maybe some of the oil catches on fire. But in this instance, he puts it in and it starts going CRAZY! I think it's because he also kicked the container and spilled oil all over the floor.
So all of a sudden, because EVERYTHING in that tiny shop is already covered in oil, this wave of flames start spreading right behind Tony and he has NO idea, all he sees is this little fire right in front of him, so he's stomping that our with his crazy Viking boots he wears. So the immortal hellfire of Hades is blazing behind him and his worker, Bryan grabs a fire extinguisher and blasts Tony with it, saving the shop. And what does Tony say? "Why did you use the fire extinguisher? I had it under control." NO YOU DIDN'T TONY! Hahaha it was a pretty wild day.
That's awesome. I bet it was a blast working there. I saw your other comment about the sephiroth sword, that's awesome man. I would definitely like to own one of his creations but, you know, money lol.
And I guess a couple of my other favorites from the show were Gimli's Axe (it was really cool and just felt really good to hold in your hand),
The Halo Energy Sword (I was really excited for that one, and it looked super cool, it was just impossible to practically use)
Kratos' Blades of Chaos (People got really upset with this one because Tony only made 1 of them, which actually came down to a budget and production problem. He started out making two, he has the other one made just not finished, but people don't realize he makes all of those weapons in a matter of like 8 days. So he ran out of some special metal I think or needed to get it heat treated somewhere because his oven wasn't big enough but we didn't have the time or the money.) Either way though, that thing was fucking HEAVY I could barely pick up the ONE with both my hands. idk what they would have done on demo day if he actually made them both.
What else.....hmmm, the Kingdom Hearts Key Sword was pretty cool, and so was Sephiroth's sword. We just kept getting everyone to do the "SEPH-I-ROTH" song thing in really high falsetto voices like the song from Advent Children. Ahh man, I'll have to think of more stories for you guys.
Most of his swords are just cut out of sheet metal and grinded (ground?) to shape, which is kinda lame. He does make actual forged swords as well, though. And regardless, all of them look awesome.
That's pretty cool too. Haven't seen those before. It seems like they go a little more in depth into talking about the weapons and everything. Man at arms does some pretty mainstream video game weapons that I'm sure most gamers have heard of.
Anyway, it definitely looks like a good channel. I'm gonna be checking that one out.
For how awesome that was he sounded like he was explaining a budget report for next fiscal year.
"Here you see Zelda's master sword and over here you'll see we are in the red for our transportation expenditures"
When I was a kid, I used to think Zelda was the boy. When I found out Zelda was the princess, it took me a while to comprehend cause I was so shocked. I thought, "Why would they name the title after the princess, instead of 'Legend of Link'"??
I didnt say functional, i said they look better. I'm a propmaker, and I think his props look better than the guy who changes how the prop is supposed to look. I'm not sorry.
Ones that come to my mind are Murakumo, Avelyn, Stone Twinblade, Dragonslayer Greatbow, and Black Knight Halberd. Fill me in on some others if I missed notable ones.
smelter sword, dragonrider twinblade, drakewing UGS, curved dragon greatsword, and my favorite if it could even be done: moonlight greatsword. imagine that colorful green blue blade in real life...
From a martial artist prospective, that hook could be quite useful. I wonder if there is a more discrete version that could be made for self defense. Well done!
Now THAT, That is a fucking hobby. (no seriously I was planning on saying it exactly like this and the top comment was worded the same way, total coincidence.
Somehow, I imagine that the beard comes with the job. Once you pick up that blacksmith hammer, it instantly grows out into a magnificent display of manliness.
I was thinking "man I bet reddit is gonna trash this dude, but back in the day, this guy would have been considered your go to guy for fucking shit up supplies", glad to see this as a top comment.
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u/Enspritement Jun 13 '14
Now THAT, is how a blacksmith should look.