Klingons may not be approximate, but Federation linguists like Okrand can be! Voragh ________________________________________________________________ From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> On Behalf Of De'vID Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2020 11:18 AM On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 15:38, Alan Anderson <qunchuy@alcaco.net<mailto:qunchuy@alcaco.net>> wrote: The only confusion is in the minds of people who were indoctrinated by overzealous physics teachers in high school. The legal definition of a pound *is* a mass. What's confusing are the words "around five pounds (2.25 kg or so)". By the legal definition, 5 lb is 2.26796185 kg. Is that "2.25" just a round value (like "five" is)? Or is this an example of Klingons being sometimes inaccurate, but never approximate?