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Heck, yes, we still "dial" our telephones!  <g>

 

I for one sure wish we had made the conversion years ago.  We do metric money and metric arithmetic--it shouldn't be all that tough to get used to the simple concept of doing other things in Base 10 as well.  I get really tired of having to convert temps from F to C all the time for my hubby (who is from Denmark and is just flabbergasted by Fahrenheit), and it is SO much easier to do stuff with rations and such when ppm is the same thing as mg per kg so that you don't have to do any fancy calculations.  All of our injectable medications are already dispensed in ml, and it is a pain to have to convert to ounces for some uses.  Life is SO much simpler in metric... <sigh>

 

Heidi

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:03:16 -0700, "Barbara McCrary"
<bigcreekranch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Our government tried to initiate the whole metric thing in the USA and some of us never caught on...that is, we couldn't translate.  I guess the government gave up.  We're still using our own bizarre method of describing distances and volume, etc.  Maybe metric makes more sense, but we're used to our methods and it's a lot of work to learn a new "language."  <g>

"The gummint" did a poor job, as usual.  The PR ads made metric sound
more complicated than English units, when they are in fact much easier
to use.  It is only the unfamiliarity of metric that scares people.

Metric will eventually dominate, slowly.  It is not only already
common in beverage bottles, but nuts & bolts for automobiles as well,
and in computers.  And kids are taught metric in school, it won't seem
unfamilar to them as they get older.

Never fear, expressions like "foot-long hot dog" and "a miss is as
good as a mile" will be around long after those units have fallen into
general disuse.  They still measure flat-track races in furlongs!
Hmmm, I once stated the average speed to drive in a car rally I put on
in "furlongs per fortnight."  And once specified the length of
something in "gallons per acre."
--

Joe Long
jlong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.chiprider.com

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