(09-29-2013, 01:31 PM)Ildur Wrote: I have to wonder why the developers decided they needed 'new' words for the distance and weight measurements. I mean, look at them. They are basically the same word and fulfill the exact same purpose. Why change them at all? Immersion isn't a good answer: everything else Eorzeans say is translated into english (for practical OOC purposes). Except for those measurements. It -would- make sense if they weren't direct counterparts of real life measurements. But that is not the case: a yalm IS a yard. Why change its name if its the exact same thing?
The same thing happens with anyroad/anyway and popotoes/potatoes. They are useless changes that reflect nothing about the world, unlike the time measurements.
I just find it silly.
It helps add flavour. Countless forms of media employ it. Heck, just look at The Walking Dead - we know the zombies in the setting are zombies, but they're never referred to being as such - they're labeled 'walkers' instead alongside a handful of other colourful terms.
