Re: Weekly Vocab 8 (1-6)

Quoting Jake X <starvingpoet@...>:

> > 1. kilogram (appropriate unit of weight or mass for you and your
> > conculture)
> > I need a kilogram of flour.
> Dal abem ci addid pddosco.
> Must GEN-me the addid flour-pl.
>
> 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 ...

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.

                                                            Andreas

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