OT: Wall Street Journal discovers linguistic relativism

[Joel S. Berson]

At 7/26/2010 05:15 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>I exaggerated the "bales", of course, but "wisps" sounds like a lot less
>than the version I heard. Perhaps "handful" or "bunch"--informal
>measures are so hard with long thin objects.

"Sheafs", or perhaps "fasces".  And perhaps Peter intended his
recruits to have strenuous, strengthening exercise at the same time,

Joel

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