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Re: [Low-Tech] Smallsword with the Bronze Age 'Rapier?'
The UK seems to be in some weird in between mode. Distances on road signs are in miles, weight of people are in pounds and stone. Speed limits seem to be in miles per hour. As far as I can see they use Celcius to measure heat.
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03-03-2022, 10:39 AM | #43 | |
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03-03-2022, 12:06 PM | #44 |
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Interestingly this meaning is totaly lost in modern German. Today Messer is only used for kinves, never for swords.
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Commonwealth countries are more complex in their measuring that first meets the eye. They all have weird holdouts in specific industries and contexts. Its actually fairly fun reading (at least for me). For example, the Canadian Railroad and Construction industries still operate in imperial units. There are also places that are on paper metric but are as likely to use imperial as long as you aren't in a legal context, like Guyanna. But yes, converting is painful. At least in the gaming context you don't have to be that precise, so you can get away with 1lb = 0.4kg or even 1 yard = 1 meter.
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03-03-2022, 01:26 PM | #46 |
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I don't find conversion painful. It's one reason I'm not surprised that metric hasn't replaced US Customary in the US. Over the seas they may speak of "holdouts" but over here there's basically no force being applied that people have to hold out against.
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Outside of the military or the classroom, anyway. I've seen some tantrums around metric in both.
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03-03-2022, 06:29 PM | #48 |
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It would be rare for a Canadian-born person to give their height or weight in metric. But nobody under 60 ever talks about temperature in Fahrenheit.
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03-11-2022, 01:37 PM | #50 |
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Re: [Low-Tech] Smallsword with the Bronze Age 'Rapier?'
Before this thread vanishes completely I want to pose the question of "What about fencing with shortswords?".
We'd be talking about TL2 blades with real tangs and pommels being used by adventurous types without heavy armor (to the extent it even existed in the time period) or shields (most of which were quite large and bulky). This would be the sort of thing you saw in many of the movies of the "sword and sandals" genre of the 60s because the available swordmasters didn't know much outside of western academic fencing. In favor of the proposition the blades in question were faster and better balanced than later long swords. Smallsword Skill also says "Any light thrusting sword". You would be excluding the heaviest swords of the gladius type (most of them over 2 lbs) and non-thrusting blades like the khopis or falcata. Other than those I'm not seeing huge arguments agist it.
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