Re: British v. American Vocabulary


Tue, 19 Sep 1995 16:13:32 GMT

In article <19950919.093513.18@arnod.arnod.demon.co.uk>,
Julian Arnold <jools@arnod.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>2 or 3 people wrote by post, and 2 by mail:
>> `furlongs per fortnight'.

>Obviously physics jokes reach a wider audience in the US than they do in the
>UK. 8)

So it seems. I guess I'll go back to Planck lengths per eon.

Besides, this is interactive fiction, where the only unit of length
is the graph distance from one room to the next and the only unit of
time is that nebulous concept known as a "turn". It is even relativistic
in the sense that there is a maximum speed of one room per turn.

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