I have sent a separate email off to Herr Peck on this matter, assuring him that educated Americans can and do use SI symbology correctly. Further, I left it pretty clear the our journalists are not to be considered knowledgeable about these things and that we are working to educate them. I won't bother posting that rather long email on this list; there's nothing in it that this group hasn't seen before. Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You may remember some time ago I e-mailed a German company magazine > about their use of non-metric units. Today I got a reply from the > Editor and author of one of the pieces: > > >Dear Sir, > > > >I can understand that you being a member of the UK Metrication Assiciation > >and the US Metric Assoication fight for the usage of metric units. But > >actually they are not in use in the US. And when we started the > >international edition of agenda we decided to use american english so that > >explains why we use their units and expressions like "sq.m" instead of m2 > >which is more popular in the US. > > > >But we will take your letter your letter as a good opportunity to discuss > >changing to english english which indeed makes more sense because with > >Thames Water we have more english readers now than american. > > > >Yours faithfullly > >Christoph Peck > >Agenda Editor > > -- > UK Metrication Association: http://www.metric.org.uk/ -- Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!" James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/ 10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789
