----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, 2002-02-25 00:28 Subject: Yahoo! Clubs Metric America
> > > Wachting the Olympics, one cannot fail to notice that > English truly is the world's language, for better or for > worse, regardless of whether you are for this or not. > > It would seem the least we Americans could do would be > to back off of our silly and misplaced national pride > in preserving our non-metric our anti-metric way of > doing things. > > If the whole world is now going to come round to using > you langauge, > > and if metric is a system of measurement which the U.S. > helped to promote as a worldwide system, > > and if metric is now the offficial system of measurement > absolutely everywhere except in the U.S., > > then surely the U.S. ought to move expeditiously to help > make metric the one and only worldwide system everywhere > for all measurement. > > Comments? > > Please share your thoughts at > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/impeachnot or > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/MetricAmerica > > Sincerely, > Andy Johnson > Jacksonville, Florida > (weekdays, 9--noon, on http://www.wjgr.com & WJGR) > >
