this is not a journal title

to clarify what i'm getting at - suppose, say, that this planet's year is about 36 Earth years. suppose further that, since 36-year chunks are sort of a coarse-grained calendrical measure, the cultures that have evolved there usually measure long temporal durations in shorter units of about a twelfth of a year (three Earth years). call these units ‘gleebs’. if you're writing a book for English-speaking, Earth-based audiences, you'll translate every reference to ‘n gleebs’ with a reference to ‘3n years’, because your audience won't know what gleebs are. so just imagine the original said something about a summer three gleebs long.