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2001-08-04
It would make it so much simpler if the government
would just make the yard equal to the metre. This way if some luddite says
yards, we will know it is really metres. It won't affect much since most
media sources have been equating the two for years, and yards are not used much
in the US, except for football. At least this way we will get the 100 m
field.
Even if it is never done officially, it will
continue to be done unofficially.
John
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, 2001-08-05 11:55
Subject: [USMA:14778] RE: Someone at NEC
has a BIG lap
In a message dated
2001-08-05 11:34:40 Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I enjoyed the WWII sub movie U-571 a week ago, in which an
American crew
commandeers a Nazi U-boat, and are reading its depth
gauges in meters. The
use of meters throughout the dilaog is
pervasive, even in one tense seen
where they're approaching crush depth:
"180 meters!....190 meteres!....200
meters!....", with lots of tight
shots of metric depth gauges and perspiring
faces.
Better than that even was Das Boot in the
original German, where the
terrified U-boat crew, trying to avoid British
depth charges, said the same
thing.
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