What is the Elanthian word for week? For month? For day?

The days of the week all have names as do the months, but if I wanted to say to someone "Meet me here in one months time on Volnes at the Hour of Phoen" I have this modern english word muddying up my Elanthian(ish) sentence. I have used "in one moon" before(I did tonight which brought this back up in my mind), but that seems very clunky.

Are there Elanthian terms for the passage of time?


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You're going to give me DR Flashbacks!

I love that GS does not try to replace words which are universally understood with random euphenisms, or worse, brand new terms.

Day, Week, Month, are critical words for meeting up, planning events, talking about things that happened, inviting people, and communicating clearly.

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What's interesting about using 'moon' for any sort of length of time is: Elanthia has 2/4 moons... so, which one are we counting time by? How fast do Lornon, Liabo (and it's daughter-moons Tilaok and Makiri) revolve around Elanthia, and are they consistent in their revolutions enough to actually count time with them?

(Some GSWiki research later...)

Ahhh, it looks like Lornon has roughly a month's time worth of an orbit, whereas Liabo has a week's time of an orbit. (Source: https://gswiki.play.net/Elanthian_Moons )

So, maybe we could use Lornon for our monthly time-keeping and Liabo for our weekly time-keeping... a day could be the normal sunrise to sunrise (or, possibly, specific-moonrise to specific-moonrise).

Otherwise, I agree. It's kinda weird using 'month' and 'week' when we've got very Elanthian words for days and months, and even names for certain times of days.

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+1 Luxelle and Naamit. English terms referring to a length of time are much preferable to arbitrary made-up words for clarity in planning. We also default to English terms for other measurements such as miles, hours, minutes, seconds etc, and I definitely would not want to have to memorize and translate an Elanthianized version of every duration, weight, and measure.

/seo, wheels and skulls department/