From: A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org   
      
    wrote:   
   > A. Tina Hall  wrote:   
      
   >> (Now imagine not being able to use pay, buy, trade, deal,... because   
   >> they don't have any economy based on trades.)   
      
   > Sounds rough.   
      
   > Racciman's World is hard enough with a "don't use" list that   
   > includes: year, month, week, hour, minute, second, mile, ghost, and   
   > cat.  There may be more that I've forgotten.   
      
   That reminds me. I really don't like using hours or minutes or seconds   
   on not Earth worlds. Couldn't come up with a replacement though, except   
   moment or eyeblink for second. If you have something for 'hour', tell   
   me!   
      
   I don't mind year if the world has an orbit around a star, month is   
   easily replaced with moon if there is one. Or just a different length   
   than normal month, same for weeks. More difficult is a distinction   
   between day(time) and day (24h - or however many hours there are).   
      
   Distances aren't a problem for me. Lenths, paces, days speed-flight.   
      
   Ghost isn't either. My worlds don't have ghosts.   
      
   Though in one story a character has explained what that is pre-story,   
   but it doesn't make sense to the people. Later in that story another   
   jokes about ghosts to someone who has heard the explanation but also   
   thinks it's a daft idea. (That bit's in one of my signatures.)   
      
   In another story a character breaks down after he no longer has to   
   (mentally) carry and help healing a couple others, and thinks his dead   
   twin brother has come back, addressing a real person with the wrong name   
   and doesn't understand why he isn't answering in the way twins on that   
   world can communicate (which is why his twin brother being dead is extra   
   bad).   
      
   I don't really know how not having cats is difficult at all. In one   
   world the people at the start don't know cats, or dogs, or even rats   
   (they aren't allowed in the city, and can't sneak in either). Another   
   world has the cats' (and other animals') food-chain niche filled by   
   another species. Though I do remember replacing lion's den with bear's   
   den or something.   
      
   > Yours is definately worse.   
      
   Hehe.   
      
   Did it stand out in the S&E? :)   
      
   >> I also wonder about the use of the word switch, what root there is,   
   >> because I only know electric switches (when not thinking "whips"),   
   >> and want to use the word in the sense of switching objects,   
   >> positions, whatever.   
      
   > Shakespeare uses "switch" as in whip, but not, apparently in the   
   > sense you want.   
      
   > I don't know where that usage came in -- If I had to guess, I think   
   > I'd go with Victorian.   
      
   > But I confess, it never would have occurred to me to avoid it on   
   > grounds of it being too recent.   
      
   Hm, maybe I should not worry then. :)   
      
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