[89436] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Arithmetic Using Units of Measure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robyn Stewart)
Mon Sep 5 19:04:09 2011
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:24:49 -0700
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Robyn Stewart <robyn@flyingstart.ca>
In-Reply-To: <D6DEF4B9D4A14CB89EF206933201DC2E@no1>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
At 15:07 05/09/2011, you wrote:
>It doesn't have to do with being primitive. In normal everyday life
>people tend to say "2 feet, 3
>inches", instead of "2.25 feet".
puH 'ItlhDaq juvmeH roghvaH qamDu' gharghmey je lo'be'. not "one
kilogram and six hundred grams" "seven metres and forty centimetres" jatlhlu'.
I was talking about normal everyday life in countries other than
Myanmar, Liberia, and whatever that other backwards Earth country is
that still uses body parts for measurements.
- Qov
