Doesn't the AP style guide say that units initially reported in metric
should not be converted?
Baron CArter
-----Original Message-----
From: Norman Werling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 07 December, 2000 08:01
To: U.S. Metric Association
Cc: US Metric Assn.
Subject: [USMA:9586] Morning Edition-NPR of 2000 December 7 at approx.
08:30 EST
Morning Edition-NPR:
I listened to Eric Weiner's report about a man who moved from Tokyo to a
provincial town to avoid noise only to be exposed to a warning system with
sirens 100 "yards" from his house.
You and I both know that this was reported as being 100 "meters" from his
new home.
Why won't you simply report this as 100 meters instead of changing it to the
100 yards of the King George III Colonial measure? Everyone knows about
swimmers and runners doing 100 meters, so why do you assume that everyone
does not understand meters?
The USA stands alone looking in from the outside at the 95% of the world
which daily uses the International System of units (SI-metric). There is
absolutely no chance that we are going to change the rest of the world in
this regard. This is (or will be in 2001) the 21st century and we need to
join the rest of the world in using modern units of measure.
After all, they have adopted English in many ways for its practical uses.
We need to adopt SI-metric for its practical uses.
Norman V. Werling
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