On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 23:51:49 -0500, you wrote:
>2001-02-13
>
>It seems the Italian news feels that it must use FFU when communicating in
>English. In the three excerpts below, Italian and Spanish forms of the same
>story mention a temperature of 18 degrees (18 gradi/grados) and then for
>English they use 34 degrees "farenheit". Not only is Fahrenheit spelled
>wrong, but 18ºC is nowhere near 34ºF.
>
>I hope some of you write to the Italian news agency responsible for these
>reports and complain that you do not understand the units. Especially, some
>of the Europeans or other non-Americans who understand neither Spanish or
>Italian and rely on the English version. Yet, when these people read the
>English version they are hampered by units not used in their world. It
>needs to be driven in that only a very small portion of English speakers
>understand FFU, and for the majority who don't, the article loses its
>meaning.
The giveaway is the fact they use a US flag for the link to the
'English' pages!
Chris
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UK Metrication Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/
