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| == The parish==
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| '''béu''' country is divided into "parishes". These are rural communities of 10,000 -> 50,000 people (urban areas have are distinct from rural areas and have a very different administrative structure).
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| The parish boundaries follow geographical features, such as streams and ridges etc. However the shape of a parish approximates to a hexagon. In fact in a total featureless landscape it would be a hexagon.
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| == The parish hall==
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| [[Image:TW_130.png]]
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| [[Image:TW_131.png]]
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| == The town clock ==
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| Every town has a clocktower and the clocktower has 4 faces, which are aligned with the cardinal directions. The street pattern is also so aligned : that is the four biggest streets radiate out from the clock in the cardinal directions.
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| Each face displaying a clock similar to the one below.
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| [[Image:TW_93.png]]
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| The above figure shows the time at exactly 6 in the morning. You notice that the main (hour hand) hand is pointing to the right : it starts from the horizontal. This hand sweeps out one revolution in 24 hours and it moves anti-clockwise
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| Notice that secondary (minute hand) starts from the vertical and sweeps out a revolution in 2 of our hours. It moves clockwise. And actually when it passes the main hand, there is a clever mechanism to stop it being hidden. It stops 3.75 minutes at one side of the main hand, and then moves directly (2 steps) to the other side of the main hand and stops there for 3.75 minutes. After that it does a step and waits 2.5 minutes, etc. etc. ... until it encounters the main hand again.
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| The red and the black arms do not move continuously but move in steps. The primary arm moves 3.75 degrees every 15 minutes, and the secondary arm moves 7.5 degrees every 2.5 minutes.
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| The clocktower is surmounted by a green conic roof (actually not really conic ... the roof slope decreases as you get nearer the bottom). Lighting from under the roof could be provided for each face. Either that or the faces could be illuminated from within at night. The faces are not exactly vertical but the top slightly overhangs the bottom.
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| There is never any numbering on the face.
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| The clock also emits sounds. Every 2 of our hours the clock makes a deep "boing" which reverberates for some time. Also from 6 in the morning to 6 at night, the clock emits a "boing" every 30 of our minutes. The first "boing" has no accompaniment. However the second "boing" is followed (well actually when the "boing" is only .67 % dissipated) by a "sharper" sound that dies down a lot quicker : "teen". The third "boing" has 2 "teen"s 0.72 seconds apart. The fourth has 3 "teen"s. The fifth one is back to the single "boing" and so it continues thru the day.
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| The secondary hand and the 36 diamonds should be ...
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| East face => white or even better, silver
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| North face => light blue
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| West face => green
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| South face => dark blue
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| (The drawing is a bit out in this respect).
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| ==The time of day==
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| '''dé''' = day
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| The '''béu''' day begins at sunrise. 6 o'clock in the morning is called '''cuaju'''
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| The time of day is counted from '''cuaju'''. 24 hours is considered one unit. 8 o'clock in the morning would be called '''ajai''' (normally just called '''ajai''', but '''cúa ajai''' or '''ajai yanfa''' might also be heard sometimes).
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| {| border=1
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| |align=center| 6 o'clock in the morning
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| |align=center| '''cuaju'''
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| |align=center| 8 o'clock in the morning
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| |align=center| '''ajai'''
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| |align=center| 10 o'clock in the morning
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| |align=center| '''uvai'''
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| |align=center| midday
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| |align=center| '''ibai'''
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| |align=center| 2 o'clock in the afternoon
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| |align=center| '''agai'''
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| |align=center| 4 o'clock in the afternoon
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| |align=center| '''idai'''
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| |align=center| 6 o'clock in the evening
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| |align=center| '''ulai'''
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| |align=center| 8 o'clock in the evening
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| |align=center| '''icai'''
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| |align=center| 10 o'clock at night
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| |align=center| '''ezai'''
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| |align=center| midnight
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| |align=center| '''okai'''
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| |align=center| 2 o'clock in the morning
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| |align=center| '''apai'''
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| |align=center| 4 o'clock in the morning
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| |align=center| '''atai'''
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| |}
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| Just for example, let us now consider the time between 4 and 6 in the afternoon.
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| 16:00 would be '''idai''' : 16:10 would be '''idaijau''' : 16:20 would be '''idaivau''' .... all the way up to .... 17:50 which would be '''idaitau
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| Now all these names have in common the element '''idai''', hence the period from 4 o'clock to 6 o'clock is called '''idaia''' (the plural of '''idai'''). This is exactly the same as us calling the period from 1960 -> 1969, "the sixties".
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| The perion from 6 o'clock to 8 o'clock in the morning is called '''cuajua'''. This is a back formation. People noticed that the two hour period after the point in time '''ajai''' was called '''ajaia'''(etc. etc.) and so felt that the two hour period after the point in time '''cuaju''' should be called '''cuajua'''. By the way, all points of time between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. MUST have an initial '''cuaju'''. For example "ten past six in the morning" would be '''cuaju ajau''', "twenty past six" would be '''cuaju avau''' and so on.
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| If something happened in the period from 4 o'clock to 6 o'clock, it would be said to have happened '''idaia.pi'''
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| Usually you talk about points of time rather than periods of time. If you arrange to meet somebody at 2 o'clock morning, you would meet them '''apaiʔe'''.
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| But we refer to periods of time occasionally. If some action continued for 20 minutes, it will have continued '''nàn uvau''', for 2 hours : '''nàn ajai''' ('''nàn''' means "a long time")
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| In English we divide the day up into hours, minutes and seconds. In '''béu''' they only have the '''yanfa'''. The '''yanfa''' is equivalent to 5 seconds. We would translate "moment" as in "just a moment" as '''yanfa''' also.
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| ==Index==
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| {{Béu Index}}
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