In my hometown newspaper, today's editorial and one op-ed piece decried the bandying-about of "trillions" of dollars. Why not start applying SI prefixes to these sums of money? Anybody got a teradollar or two? In terms of the national debt, that sounds less ominous.
Quoting STANLEY DOORE <stan.do...@verizon.net>: > The US education establishment likes to use sophisticated words like metric > and metrics without understanding what the words really mean, or, they use > changes of commonly used words to something similar to hide the real meaning. > Stan Doore > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Norman & Nancy Werling > To: U.S. Metric Association > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:05 PM > Subject: [USMA:42274] Re: Ed-week > > > Pat, > > I find it fascinating that many American professionals of many persuations > continually use the word "metric" in the sense of "defining measures of > success, etc." when referring to many topics. But these same > professionals--and I use the word loosely--continue to change meters to > yards. I continue to feel that it is the media who are most guilty with > regard to changing SI terms to USC. > > On January 8 Pat Naughton wrote: > > Subject: [USMA:42272] Ed-week > > > Dear All, > > > I happened on this web site at http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html and > thought that they might have some thoughts on metric system education in the > USA. However, a search for the words metric system (without quotes) resulted > in 4 references that referred to system and systems and that used the word > metric and metrics only in the sense of using the right metrics or choosing > another metric. > > > It would appear that the metric system has not been thought worthy of > consideration by these magazines in the last 12 months. > > > For information about who runs this web site go to > http://www.edweek.org/info/about/ > > > Cheers, > Pat Naughtin > > > PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, > Geelong, Australia > Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 > > > Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped > thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric > system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands > each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat > provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and > professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in > Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian > Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the > UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication > information, contact Pat at pat.naugh...@metricationmatters.com or to get the > free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: > http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe. > > -- Paul Trusten, R.Ph. Public Relations Director U.S. Metric Association (USMA), Inc. www.metric.org 3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122 Midland TX 79707-2872 US +1(432)528-7724 mailto:trus...@grandecom.net
