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To indicate a time of the day, you say "It is 142 beats." That's approximately 10:40 (am), because beat 0 is the time of sunrise on summer solstice at the center of the country. To the west and east of the center, sunrise on summer solstice day is a little before or after 0 beats. On all other days of the year, 0 beats is during the period called "late night," sometimes hours before sunrise. | To indicate a time of the day, you say "It is 142 beats." That's approximately 10:40 (am), because beat 0 is the time of sunrise on summer solstice at the center of the country. To the west and east of the center, sunrise on summer solstice day is a little before or after 0 beats. On all other days of the year, 0 beats is during the period called "late night," sometimes hours before sunrise. | ||
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| + | = Language = | ||
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| + | == Numbers == | ||
| + | Clorlimoan uses an octal system. They have names for the numbers 1-8. The word for 5 is similar to the word for 1, the word for 6 is similar to the word for 2 and so on. For numbers between 9 and 16, they say something like "8 and 1/2/3", for higher numbers you say something like "3 times 8 and 2" (26). There are separate words for 9*8 and powers of it, but they are often confused in everyday life, as people are not used to playing with big numbers. These high numbers are 72 / 5184 / 26,873,856. Some scientists even have words for 722,204,136,308,736 (722 trillion) and 521,578,814,501,447,328,359,509,917,696 (521 octillions). | ||
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| + | === Finger Counting === | ||
| + | The numbers from 1 to 8 are counted with the fingers of one hand: | ||
| + | #- only the little finger | ||
| + | #- index and ring finger | ||
| + | #- index, ring and middle finger | ||
| + | #- all four fingers | ||
| + | #- little finger and thumb | ||
| + | #- index finger, ring finger, thumb | ||
| + | #- all but the index finger | ||
| + | #- the whole hand | ||
Revision as of 16:03, 10 May 2006
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| Flag of Clorlimoa | |
| Motto: We are different | |
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| Region | The South Pacific |
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| Capital | none |
| Official Language(s) | English |
| Leader | none |
| Population | <50 million |
| Currency | Flower |
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Contents
Life in Clorlimoa
Time
Clorlimoans have two ways of telling the time. The traditional "day periods" depend on the position of the sun. The modern "beats" provide a way to measure time objectively.
Day Periods
Clorlimoans distinguish 9 day periods:
- "Beginning of the morning" = just after sunrise
- "Mid-morning" = halfway between sunrise and noon
- "End of the morning" = just before noon
- "Beginning of the evening" = just after noon
- "Mid-evening" = halfway between noon and sunset
- "End of the evening" = just before sunset
- "Early night" = just after sunset
- "Midnight" = around midnight
- "Late night" = just before sunrise
Actually evening is a bad translation. But I if used afternoon, people might think the Clorminoan word is a compound of after+noon, which is not true.
The following table shows how different the nine day periods can be, depending on the season. Imagine the sun is up between 4:00 (4 am) and 20:00 (8 pm) in summer, between 8:00 (8 am) and 16:00 (4 pm) in winter, and of course between 6:00 (6 am) and 18:00 (6 pm) at the time of the equinox.
| Period | Winter | Equinox | Summer |
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| beg. morning | 8:00-9:20 | 6:00-8:00 | 4:00-6:40 |
| mid-morning | 9:20-10:40 | 8:00-10:00 | 6:40-9:20 |
| end morning | 10:40-12:00 | 10:00-12:00 | 9:20-12:00 |
| beg. evening | 12:00-13:20 | 12:00-14:00 | 12:00-14:40 |
| mid-evening | 13:20-14:40 | 14:00-16:00 | 14:40-17:20 |
| end evening | 14:40-16:00 | 16:00-18:00 | 17:20-20:00 |
| early night | 16:00-21:20 | 18:00-22:00 | 17:20-20:00 |
| midnight | 21:20-2:40 | 22:00-2:00 | 22:40-1:20 |
| late night | 2:40-8:00 | 2:00-6:00 | 1:20-4:00 |
The periods only indicate an approximate time of the day. Due to the seasons, their lengths vary a lot. That's why the official beat system was introduced.
Beats
A day is divided into 8³ = 512 (big) beats, which are in turn divided into 8³ = 512 (small) beats. Thus a big beat is almost 3 minutes, and a small beat is a third of a second.
To indicate a time of the day, you say "It is 142 beats." That's approximately 10:40 (am), because beat 0 is the time of sunrise on summer solstice at the center of the country. To the west and east of the center, sunrise on summer solstice day is a little before or after 0 beats. On all other days of the year, 0 beats is during the period called "late night," sometimes hours before sunrise.
Language
Numbers
Clorlimoan uses an octal system. They have names for the numbers 1-8. The word for 5 is similar to the word for 1, the word for 6 is similar to the word for 2 and so on. For numbers between 9 and 16, they say something like "8 and 1/2/3", for higher numbers you say something like "3 times 8 and 2" (26). There are separate words for 9*8 and powers of it, but they are often confused in everyday life, as people are not used to playing with big numbers. These high numbers are 72 / 5184 / 26,873,856. Some scientists even have words for 722,204,136,308,736 (722 trillion) and 521,578,814,501,447,328,359,509,917,696 (521 octillions).
Finger Counting
The numbers from 1 to 8 are counted with the fingers of one hand:
- - only the little finger
- - index and ring finger
- - index, ring and middle finger
- - all four fingers
- - little finger and thumb
- - index finger, ring finger, thumb
- - all but the index finger
- - the whole hand
