[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Gustaf,
>
> You have been had by the BWMA propaganda.
No absolutely not. I'm just as pro-metric as you are.
But I'm also interested in implementing it the way I and people in common seem to
want it to be. Then maybe people would like it and it would gain ground. Don't you
know anything about human nature?
I'll tell you about my nature:
I would never dream of measuring beer in mL or measure the wideness of a door in
mm. We don't do that in Sweden, and we are about as metric as a country can get.
It is uncomfortable and there is no reason for it whatsoever. Also I don't like
grams dispite that I was born with them and never knew anythimg else. They are too
small and too many.
I think a lot of people have the same nature as I have, and then I can understand
if a british person gets a bad impression from the metric system when a pint is
over 500 of that metric unit or when a 8 oz cheese is over 200 of that other
metric unit.
The metric system as it is today is INCONSISTENT. A base-unit should not be based
on another unit.
With a new name for kilogram we would have the perfectly consistent , comfortable
and userfriendly
1 m = 100 cm ( = 1000 mm)
1 L = 100 cL ( = 1000 mL)
1 X = 100 cX ( = 1000 mX)
where X stands for the new name.
Then I think it would be much less trouble of implementing it in Britain and USA.
The centi-sizes are all about a third of their old counterparts (in, fl oz and oz)
and thus in the same order of magnitude. Another (not so important) thing to do
would be to spell the words as they sound, to get rid of their foreign touch. A
metre could be spelled "meter" as in USA, and a litre could be spelled "liter" or
even "leater".
Adjust the metric system for everyday use and human nature.
> DON'T BE HAD BY BWMA PROPAGANDA!
Don't be silly. I am Swedish and I know how to use to use the metric system. It is
my "motherlanguage of measure", so don't tell me how to use it. Some of you people
don't seem to have got that at all.
