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Re: OT: Units (was Re: Numbers in Qthen|gai (and in Tyl Sjok) [long])

From:Tristan Mc Leay <conlang@...>
Date:Thursday, January 13, 2005, 11:08
Andreas Johansson wrote:

>You might not have taken as many electronics courses as I have. :) > >
Evidently not!
>A big multiple I hear of with some frequency is terajoule. > >
Never heard of terajoules I don't think
>>I think you missed that one---a mil in Australia is a millimetre or >>millilitre. >> >> > >I'd hope that's with a short /i/, tho. Swedish mil is [mi:l]. > >
Yeah. Well, short /I/ at any rate. But the i in 'kilo' is a long /I:/, so go figure. (kilo- has of course a short /I/.)
>Here the tablespoon is 15ml, the teaspoon 5ml, while the cup to my knowledge >isn't used. The units are almost exclusively used in recipes. >
Yeah, ditto (I'll be careful not to use a swedish recipe book without adaption, though :). Do you measure litres of flour, or do you just do it by weight? -- Tristan.

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