I use standard and metric almost interchangeably for something's, although
for others I will use one or the other almost exclusively.
When dealing with wood and carpentry, I use standard almost exclusively.
When doing what work I can on vehicles, I interchange.
When driving, I interchange ( it's a must, because the hwy signs are in
miles and my speedometer is in kilometers ).
When hiking and reading maps for hiking, I use metric almost
exclusively, because I know that a meter is a little more than a yard, and a
kilometer is a 1000 meters. This way it put's large distances ( anything
over 1 kilometer into better perspective ).
When dealing with weight, I use, standard.
I personally think that kilometers, should be posted on Hwy signs next to
miles, that would help most Americans to start to understand some metric,
even if on a subliminal level.
I have one beef, with metric. There are several very common units ( like
millimeter, centimeter, meter, and kilometer ), that are easy to understand,
and use. On the other hand, there are also several units, that appear to
be ( how shall I say it ) - almost useless and almost a waste of time ( like
most of the rest of the units between centimeter and meter, and the units
between meter and kilometer ). For an example: I see printed ( and
hear people saying ), that something is .5 kilometers from something else -
I don't hear that it is 5 hectometers. .95 kilometers, not 95 dekameters
( or decameters - I have found it spelled both ways ). 10 meters, not 1
dekameter ( decameter )
I just don't see the benifet of having what appears to be a units of measure
that seams to exists just for the sole reasion to give a level of 10 / 1 or
1 / 10 of the next unit of measure ( up or down ). Just say 1000 m = 1 km
and call it good.
Greg H.
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