These idiots, I know no other word,. still suffer from the delusion that if English is used, that it automatically entails use of ifp! What the editor of that magazine wrote is disgusting! He has a very quaint notion about the meaning of the word 'international' indeed. Even when they change to British English, they will still use ifp trash, as that is 'international', according to them! Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "James R. Frysinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, 2001 July 26, 01:24 Subject: [USMA:14615] Re: (fwd) Metric Units in German company magazine > 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 that 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 Association and the US Metric Association 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
