Re: CHAT: what fruit bat?

On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Anton Sherwood wrote:

> Tristan Alexander McLeay wrote:
> > It is important to note, however, that the `spin year' is about 800
> > days long (but the effective calendar is only 400 because there are
> > two of each season a year, . . . ).
>
> oh dear, that makes too much sense.
Should I assume that's sarcasm? There's a not-terribly-good explanation of
why in the companion. The length spin year is the time it takes one point
of the disc to reach that point again (accounting for the fact that the
turtle is swimming forwards through space, of course). Apparently, this
means that there are two of each season per year...

> > . . . Therefore, regardless of which method you use, the year is
> > longer, so it might still be the Century of the Fruitbat. . . .
>
> we don't know just when the C.Fb. started anyway.
No, all we know is that it's been ending in what we may call the present.

ObConlang: is the Morporkian language in the Discworld series that looks
fairly much like Latin actually Latin? (I can't remember the name of by
heart, but I can remember reading about it, and, as one would expect, it's
given a Discworld history, but not a real-life one.)

Tristan

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