On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:08:12 +0100, Ricky Clarkson
<[email protected]> wrote:
"Still, other countries such as the cited UK managed to made the unit
change in the past."
Brits still measure distances in miles, height in feet and inches and
weight in stone and lbs. The height and weight thing might be changing
with the current generation of schoolchildren, I'm not sure, but miles
look
to be there to stay.
I know that the transition is still in progress and I do expect it would
take a generation. I don't hear Britons screaming in terror, but perhaps
I'm a bit too far form them... :-) Well, when I visited UK in the past, I
didn't hear people screaming anyway.
If you want to standardise things, shall we start
with the spoken language and leave the units until continental Europe
uses
English instead of their local dialect? :)
Bad example... One might take this argument as: everybody uses his own
unit system at home, but talks a common lingua franca (the metric system)
with others. This seems to be roughly what we're doing. I also think that
there could be also different linguae francae in function of the context
and in some contexts there is probably a very good integration. For
instance, I think even UK scientists measure things in nanometers rather
than nanoinches, at least when they publish a paper.
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