Because of the constant clinging to weird units,
we already lost an expensive Mars probe :)
Am 29.01.2018 um 12:55 schrieb Christopher Stetson:
And, to continue Monica's thoughts, the change Rainer is speaking of
took place long before there were any standards for teachers at all.
it also depends on time and place. In the United States, we have
certainly had standards for teachers for several decades, including
grammar, though I have never heard of any authority in any English
speaking country that could mandate this kind of usage. However,
almost all of the English speaking population of the United States
still think in pints, yards, inches, gallons, and pounds. The only
exception would be the scientific community, and I'm sure they're
"bilingual". We made an attempt to officially go metric in the early
1970's, but the only survivor is soft drinks. I buy gallons of milk
and gasoline, but liters of Coke.
Best to all, and keep playing,
Chris.
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 6:27 AM, [1][email protected]
<[2][email protected]> wrote:
There is never likely to be any official reform of the English
language. And teachers don't have a common opinion on what to
teach
children. The policy is to leave children to find everything out for
themselves.
As ever
Monica
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From: [3][email protected]
Date: 29/01/2018 9:37
To: "Lute net"<[4][email protected]>
Subj: [LUTE] four and twenty
A clarification:
I always thought that there must have been (sort of) an official
reform.
At least teachers must have a common opinion what to teach children.
Apparently there was none in England.
In Germany from time to time "mathematicians" propose to change the
German system since the current system makes learning Math hard for the
children.
Of course, this has nothing to do with mathematics :)
I guess such a reform (in Germany) would be very confusing for several
decades.
Switching from shillings and pennies to 100 pence per pound must have
been hard.
Do many people still think in yards, miles, pints, ...?
Cheers,
Rainer
PS
A new standard kilogram will probably come soon.
PPS
Coming back to lute matters: most people describe string tensions in
terms of Kg which is plain nonsense since Kg is the unit of matter.
What should be used is Kilopond which is equal to the magnitude of the
force exerted by one kilogram of mass in a 9.80665 m/s2 gravitational
field.
However, officially kilopond should not be used any more (since c1980).
I still prefer to talk about a tension of 3 Kilopond instead of 29.4
Newton :)
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