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"Merlin, the 6ft wide doors for the Great Hall have arrived, but they don't fit the space in the metric-specced walls!"
by linker3000 10y ago
"Merlin, the 6ft wide doors for the Great Hall have arrived, but they don't fit the space in the metric-specced walls!"
- gilleain 10y agoOn an audio tour around a castle in northern France, they had actors "reconstructing" lines from the past, including one that went: "The tower had to be strong, so we built the walls 1.85 meters thick!...." Soooo authentic.
- tokai 10y agoYou wouldn't have been able to understand what they were saying if it had been 100% authentic. And if you translate the language why not translate the units?
- duaneb 10y agoWhy not say "make 'em really thick"? Or say "an arm span". The precise units are entirely unnecessary.
- carey 10y agoIf it was originally a round number, that would have been 1.95 metres in France, anyway, right?
- mnwg 10y agoWhy? 6' is 1,828.8mm but France didn't have a uniform system of measures before the went metric.
- m-i-l 10y ago"Nigel gave me a drawing that said six inches ... Now, whether he knows the difference between feet and inches is not my problem. I do what I'm told."