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...f everything was expressed in one standard unit system than in a diversity of unit systems local to the particular worlds and cultures under discussion i ...the "metre" spelling lends itself better to avoid ambiguity with the names of measuring devices, but whatever its merits, the Wongery complies with Ameri

...area can be thought of as the "size" of the [[manifold]], or as the amount of "material" that it would take to cover the manifold completely. ...two-dimensional shape). Unlike the surface area, the cross-sectional area of a three-dimensional manifold is not uniquely defined; it depends on the par

...ch that a normal [[human]] [[lifetime]] is generally measured in some tens of years. ..., the abbreviations "mya" for "millions of years ago", "bya" for "billions of years ago", and so on are common, though they are discouraged by some autho

...rly widespread, and has significantly contributed to the common stereotype of Aeolans as arrogant and self-centered. ...rld is mutable, or that some spatial warping occurs. Sometimes, the edges of the world seem to be joined together, and some travelers who have journeyed

...re likely to travel to another eidopolis than they are to the surroundings of their own home city—though, indeed, many eidopolitans never leave the Except for [[æalogist]]s, residents of the cities seldom use the word "Eidecia". To them, Eidecia is merely "the

...on Gala alongside the [[human (Gala)|human]]s that still form the majority of its [[ellogy|ellogous]] population. ...''didn't'' refer to the world, then "Iliwigala" couldn't mean "Great Ring of the World".)

{{otheruses|systems of communication|the capacity of language|language (mass noun)}} ...o sometimes [[metonymy|metonymically]] known as a "[[tongue]]". The study of languages is known as [[linguistics]]; a specialist in linguistics is a [[l