Talk:Zero no Tsukaima:Volume9 Chapter9
How big is the Gargoyle?[edit]
There's a problem in this chapter. The Gargoyle is supposed to be 30m in width (diameter is for circles, you use width or span - depending on the circumstances - for wings) and the Ostland is 150. But Saito states the Ostland is 50 times larger. There is an obvious error here.
Either the Gargoyle is only 3m, the Ostland 1500m or the size is supposed to be 5 times larger. If these are correct in the book, I'd suggest changing the size to 5, after all, maths is the same in the magical world as in the real one.
JBV^_^
Well, the numbers are correct, I just checked.
"Its overall width was more than 150 mails." So it could still be logical.
But I doubt this really matters. Change it if you want to.
--Zyzzyva165 13:56, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
About Tens of Them?[edit]
You don't use tens in English as a counter like this. If there is some unknown number greater than ten, you use the counter Dozens. ie, there are dozens of them. In this case I changed it to there was about ten of them as that seemed more appropriate in this case.
The use of dozens is a throw back to the pre-decimal system, of which 12 inches to the foot is the best known. In pre-decimal currency, there used to be 240 (20*12) pennies to the pound! Sounds stupid even to me , and I grew up with both (the change over started in 1970. I was 6.) Just think of writing software using a base12 system. Hex is bad enough, thank you very much>_<
JBV^_^
A quick check at dictionary.com yields this:
[1]- One of the results is 'ten' itself, indicating that a plural is possible?
And ten of them is different from the context, as the author wants to say that there are tens/twenties/thirties/forties... of them.
But if you want it, I suppose it won't hurt to use dozens.
--Zyzzyva165 13:56, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
