[an'dr\e@s r\oUt]:
> > I got a lot out of this vocab entry. I sat down and worked
> > out my system of weights, which is based on the addid:
> > the weight of the amount of flour a grown woman can hold
> > in two hands cupped together. Of course, people will use
> > women with small or large hands to measure depending
> > on what benefits them, but that's enterprising for you. ;-)
>
> This give me a mental and highly nonPC image of an enterprising flour
trader
> carrying around a collection of women with different-sized hands on his
> back ...
The thing with the Mocteno is, the women do that kind of work, so the
traders
themselves could measure... Funny thought though.
> Hm, the only unit of measurement I've got in Tairezazh yet is the _mév
> kolen_ "classical day", which is equal to what the Earth's rotational
period
> was a few millennia ago when they stopped adjusting for changes in the
planets
> motion - it's slowly but steadily shifting out of synch since.
Heh... I love how the unit based on the phenomenon stays the
same while the phenomenon itself changes.
Jake