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Re: }} Time & distance

• From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
• Subject: Re: }} Time & distance
• Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 23:26:15 -0500

peHruS whines:
>And, I am still experiencing a severe drought of words for liquid and dry
>measures.

There are plenty of words in both the "SI" and "Imperial" systems.  Volume
is probably best measured using the SI unit of {*lIytur}.

I'm serious.  We use language in order to communicate; if I want to
indicate how much gasoline my motorcycle needs when traveling from Boston
to St. Louis, I will use terms which I expect people to recognize.

~Boston-vo' ~St.Louis-Daq lengmeH cha' gho ghajbogh DujHomwIj'e' nIn wej
~gallon neH poQ DujHomwIj.  QaQ'a'?

 -- ghunchu'wI'

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