From: Carter, Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<Doesn't the AP style guide say that units initially reported in metric
should not be converted?>
It does indeed! I'm composing letters to the AP CEO and the editor of the
AP Stylebook that will go out later this week. --- Jason
> 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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