[OPEN] An entreatie concerning Weights and Measures

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Nov 21, 2024 4:45 PM

the meta-joke is that i really hate decimalization

Any good and honest Merckantile endeavor must needs good honest Weights and Measures, but that system customarily in use is assuredly of the Devils of Hell and Hell's Prince, so lately evickted from our mighty Ports and Harbors.

Impiously the wicked Merchants and Burghers cling to their Hell-Spawned Measures, swindling and fixing prices by means of such odious Weights as the Libra of Westcrown, the Arroba of Corentyn, the foul Bushell of Ostenso, and vilest of all the Gallonns of Menador.

In consideration of which I entreat Her most Glorious and Wise Majesty to adopt the following good honest Weights and Measures,

the measure of Distance, the Litran, being the measure of those leagues across which dread Rovagug was cast by Her Majesty's blow when she slew Him in Single Combat, divisible into thousandth parts, the Glory;
the measure of Dry Weight, the Iomedae, being the measure of the prodigious weight of the sword of Iomedae which Her Majesty alone have the power to wield, divisible into hundredth parts, the Valor;
the measure of Liquid Weight, the Aspex, being the measure of that loyal Blood that was shed in making War against Hell and Hell's Prince, such Weight being so titanic that it be divisible into myriad parts, the Justice.

Once and for all we may do away with the Wicked, Devilish Figures of the Merchants.

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Theopho of the Runes

reigninhell

JiSK

Ugh, flatterers. It's not even interestingly stupid.

Alexander Luthor

Flareonflare

For this first foray into pamphletting, I would like to support part of the recent proposal for new weights and measures. Splitting measures and weights into thousandths and hundredths is very tidy. Much more reasonable than the divisers of sevenths and twelfs and seventeenths that some current measurements use. I suspect they were complicated on purpose simply to enable graft and corruption! Though we could do with better and less confusing names than naming them after religious figures.

Alternatively I suggest we simply adopt Absalom reckoning for weights and measures. It being a major source of expensive goods, taking their measurements would simplify trade with that fair city.

But one thing is clear, new modes of measure, less enabling of corruption and theft, are needed for the sake of healthy trade in Cheliax!

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