*** JUNK MAIL ***Re: [Rq-rules] Conversions and origins

[Steve Davies]

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> Message: 9
> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 15:04:40 -0500
> From: Styopa <styopa1 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: *** JUNK MAIL ***Re: [Rq-rules]
> Conversions and origins
> 
> Actually, as far as distance measures go, I found it
> surprisingly
> appropriate to dispense with long distance measures.
> I got this from reading contemporary Renaissance and
> later travelogues -
> like Chaucer, and the real life annals of (I think
> it was) ibn Farouk.
> 
> They almost NEVER say "we travelled 200 leagues" or
> "the people say that the
> next village is 10 miles away".  They nearly always
> use TIME.  We travelled
> for a week.  The next village is a half-day's walk. 
> PARTICULARLY for people
> who might never have left their home valley in their
> entire lives.
> 
One of my elementary teachers commented that, "city
people tell you how far things are in time, country
people tell you in miles."  I don't know how valid
that distinction is, but I have noticed that different
groups use different styles.  I don't know if this is
an artefact of modern society.  

Here we mostly tell distances in time, because
something that is 10 miles away in one direction is
much farther away, time-wise, than one that is 10
miles away in another.

Steve

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