At 04:52 PM 3 March 2002 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I presume that 0.15" and 0.15 inch is not a controversial distinction.
They are the same: double quote (") is a symbol for inches, and single
quote (') is a symbol for foot.
>Yes. Military personal serve overseas and are immersed in metric
>cultures in professional and social lives. They work in multinational
>metric teams. If the US military use it, it certainly can't be regarded
>as unamerican.
This last sentence is most excellent!! Next time any of us encounters some
"red-neck" saying it is "un-American" to use metric, the obvious reply is
"Well, all of our Armed Forces use it!"
Since most of these "red-neck" types tend to be gun-ho, patriotic
supporters of the military, it will put them in quite a quandary.
Jim Elwell
P.S. I'm not implying with this that there is anything wrong with being a
patriotic supporter of the military!
