It seems to me that this may be a typical American thing, to create all sorts of abb's for absolutely everything. It's really a-m-a-z-i-n-g how many there are out there. They're just too numerous to provide here. Evidentely that also includes units of measurements, unfortunately.
But what you folks should realize is that it's really not a big deal for any of us to say things as they are, no matter how long it would take. Brazilians, for instance, RARELY (if ever) use abbreviations for units. We just say 'quilometros por hora', period! Why the need to abbreviate this to some skewed 'qph'??? Honestly, this is beyond me... :-S Marcus On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 07:21:55 Stephen C. Gallagher wrote: >M. Jourdan, > >Savez-vous comment on qui parle frangais >dirait km/h? > >Do you know how someone who speaks French >would say km/h? > >IL disent des kilomhtres par heure? >Est-ce qu'il y a une abriviation comme ><<kai emm hache>>? > >Would he say kilometres per hour? >Is there an abbreviation like (kay emm aich)? > >Veuillez excuser ma grammaire. Le frangais >n'est pas ma premihre langue. > >Please excuse my grammar. French is not >my first language. > >Stephen Gallagher > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Louis JOURDAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: October 17, 2001 16:29 >Subject: [USMA:15664] Re: Using quasi metric in movies > > >At 19:06 +0100 01/10/17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Why do we (the USA and UK) think we are unique in dealing with such >>matters? Why not ask what the rest of the world already does? Louis? >>Han? > >KPH ? kph ? What's that ? Qu'est-ce que c'est que ga ? > >May be you mean km/h ? vous voulez dire km/h ? Ah bon ! > >Louis > > Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/
