Jim Watson
Member
I am not much bothered by variations in pronunciation of words that were likely imported from some foreign language, but made up cuteisms do get up my nose.
I went 'round and 'round with Michael Z. Williamson over his 10 div - 100 seg - 100 sec day on the planet Grainne with 27+ hour Earth Standard day. I said that came out with a slightly different second vs Earth Standard and would lead to error in physical constants and implementations like radio frequency. He said "the computers would take care of the conversions."
I think what it did was
1. Let the Freehold of Grainne sound logical and
2. pad the word count as he repeatedly reminded Terrans what time it was.
I also b'leeve in a decimal clock with ten hour days.
I went 'round and 'round with Michael Z. Williamson over his 10 div - 100 seg - 100 sec day on the planet Grainne with 27+ hour Earth Standard day. I said that came out with a slightly different second vs Earth Standard and would lead to error in physical constants and implementations like radio frequency. He said "the computers would take care of the conversions."
I think what it did was
1. Let the Freehold of Grainne sound logical and
2. pad the word count as he repeatedly reminded Terrans what time it was.