In Russian you still have people using colloquialisms and idioms with units that were put out of use almost a century ago, yet everyone here gets the meaning (o

In Russian you still have people using colloquialisms and idioms with units that were put out of use almost a century ago, yet everyone here gets the meaning (or at least the intent, which is what matters in the contexts they are used in) since they have stayed in the literature written centuries ago and of course nobody went out of their way to fix measurements in works of fiction. Heck, most people using them don't even have a rough idea of how much they originally meant, and if you were to press them to give you a number for the sake of an experiment, they might be 2 orders of magnitude off. https://en.wikipedia.org/Obsolete_Russian_units_of_measurement#Length https://en.wikipedia.org/Obsolete_Russian_units_of_measureme...