A Guide to Eorzean

[byheartandblade]

[ Syhr'd been fortunate enough to Echo the information correctly enough to infer, she believes. So she's going to do this for others there. ]

Eorzea is my world. So I figured I'd give a quick guide so you lot can understand what's being said.

Ilm seems to translate to inch.
Fulm would be foot.
Yalm is yard.
Malm is mile.

We use bells, not hours.

Our year is about three hundred eight-four suns.
Suns are days.
Moons are months.
An epoch is a measurement of twelve years, as opposed to a decade.

We say nameday instead of birthday.

Onze instead of ounce.
Ponze instead of pound.
Tonze instead of ton.

I can answer any questions you have, if you have them.

Comments

[bloodyashes]

...Less than four hundred days?

Damn. That's an adjustment.

[byheartandblade]

I take it yours is longer?

[bloodyashes]

756 days.

[byheartandblade]

[ ...Give her a few minutes. ]

Seven hells, why are your years so long!?

[bloodyashes]

...Because that's the time it takes Auldrant to orbit Rem?

[Because they ARE what do you want from him.]

[sky_sharkling]

That's interesting, how things seem to match up even though they're called different names. Almost like it's a language thing rather than a world difference.

Earth's year is a little bit shorter. 365 days, except for every fourth year when it's 366. Those are called leap years. I think that happens because it technically takes 365 days and 6 hours to go around the sun, so every four years it adds up to another day.

[byheartandblade]

Aye, I wanted to make it easier for people to understand what I'm saying.

Interesting. It doesn't seem too much shorter, at least.

[sky_sharkling]

It's fun at least, learning all the different words for things!

Yeah, your world and mine must be fairly similar in their solar systems. Distance from the sun and all that. It's interesting, given how different this world is, assuming it's even working on the same principle.

[bloodyashes]

Well, at least that explains why you're aging so quickly.

[sky_sharkling]

Or maybe it's why you're aging so slowly. It's normal for me, after all.

[bloodyashes]

A coin has two sides. It's the same thing.

[angel_of_death]

I won't pretend to be a scientist, but I'm fairly certain the length of the year has little to do with someone's physical aging.

On the other hand, the growing season for your food crops must be simply amazing.

[betterthangarlond]

Why do other realms feel the need to be so... complex?
There are perfectly fine words in Eorzean, and they think they're not good enough?

[byheartandblade]

It's not that it's not good enough, I don't think.

But now they can at least understand what we're saying.

[betterthangarlond]

Let me guess - their measurements are more common then ours, as well? I already dislike this concept.

[angel_of_death]

Actually, there is another common measurement system on Earth, but it doesn't translate as precisely to the other measurements mentioned above as the writer claims the Imperial units do.

[whiteofcrime]

We use different measurements for length and weight in Japan. So you're not really making it any easier.

[angel_of_death]

Is it on the metric system?

[whiteofcrime]

Yep. I'm pretty sure England does too, right?

[ Well, modern England at least... ]

[angel_of_death]

No. It's still entirely on the imperial system.

[Which, if Kaito knows his metrication dates, puts Walter solidly before 1965, when England underwent a partial transition that still isn't complete in modern day, but often metric with the option to use the imperial system as supplementary information.]

[oneformisery]

Most of these words are strange to me. I understand your references to time and birthdays but what are the rest?

[bloodyashes]

An inch is about the length from the tip of your thumb to the joint. A foot is... Well, about the length of a foot from heel to toe, standardized at twelve inches. A yard is a pace or so, or a little over half my height - three feet. A mile is a long-distance measurement of about 500 yards.

Weights are a little harder - sixteen ounces is a pound, two thousand pounds is a ton. The rice is all in ten-pound sacks, I know one of your roommates got some.

[oneformisery]

Those all sound like very unreliable methods of measurement. Not all men have the same stride, or the same length thumbs and feet.

How are ounces measured?

[bloodyashes]

Those are approximations - the actual measurements are standardized.

[He draws an inch long line and labels it.]

[dragoonsong]

Finally. 'Tis past time someone aided us in understanding what in Fury's name they're talking about.