Gustaf Sjöberg wrote:
> Louis JOURDAN wrote:
>
> > At 16:05 -0700 01/03/25, Dennis Brownridge wrote:
> > >I have often lamented that the founders of the metric
> > >system didn't make the base unit about a decimeter long instead of a meter,
> > >and while they were at it, give it a one-syllable name, like "met."
> >
> > "mètre" is pronounced (in French) as a one-syllabe name. Had the
> > founders of the metric system to worry about the translation of the
> > original names in all languages in the world, possibly they would
> > have given up !
> >
> > >If they
> > >had also retained the original mass unit (grave = 1 kg), instead of
> > >switching to the thousand-times-smaller gram,
> >
> > For most people, the base unit of mass (or weight !) is the
> > "kilogramme". The fact that officially it is its thousandth part does
> > not matter to them.
>
> >
> > Louis
>
> Dennis here sees the problems.
> You just deny them.
> Well, apparantely they do exist, so why not solve them?
