2002-03-14 Bill,
Read what I said in USMA 18741. If I may expand on what on was saying there. We on this list server say the public doesn't know FFU. And they may not, except for a few basic units. But, they think they know FFU. And thus they are not going to be anti-FFU. There is a big difference between not knowing something and admitting to not knowing it and to not knowing something or not knowing it well, yet claiming to know it. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2002-03-13 19:05 Subject: [USMA:18745] Re: Missing Middle > In John's defense, he does claim that most (American) people don't actually > know FFU -- but that they are NOT anti-FFU. > > You are, uncharacteristically, making a leap of logic. > > Bill Potts, CMS > Roseville, CA > http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Jim Elwell > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 15:35 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:18743] Re: Missing Middle > > > At 06:12 PM 3 March2002 -0500, kilopascal wrote: > >Would be...Could be....if....maybe. You could say that about any subject. > >If everybody had been educated in 3 languages instead of just one, we would > >all be tri-lingual too. But, we weren't, and so we aren't. And extending > >the logic to metric, the people are not knowledgeable of metric and > >therefore oppose it. > > By John's logic: > > (A) if you don't know French, you are anti-French > (B) if you don't know German, you are anti-German > (C) if you don't know Russian, you are anti-Russian > (D) if you don't know Swahili, you are anti-African > (E) etc. > > If you believe John, then you must think most people are a bunch of > racists, as well as being anti-metric. > > Jim Elwell > >
